This episode is part of our “What Plants Crave” series, where Dr. Sabeh speaks with growers, researchers, and other experts in other engineers, growers, and manufacturers who work in controlled environment agriculture, to get their insights about the direction of the industry, and of course, what exactly it is that plants crave. This week’s episode features Ian Baker of Joyn Bio. Ian is the head of the Controlled Environment Platform at Joyn Bio, building infrastructure and running greenhouse operations to enable Joyn’s microbe screening pipeline. Having experience working at Plenty and UC Davis, he brings together production techniques with scientific rigor to optimize plant science objectives. Ian is driven by understanding the inner workings and engineering of the systems that enable modern life. No button is left unpressed or wire untraced until he unravels the operation of a system. Beyond high tech agriculture, Ian is passionate about bonsai, gardening, fine home cooking-baking-canning-preserving, photography, writing, adventure, marketing, mobility, social systems, and probably a couple of other things.