 completely not expecting to be called up. Aviv or Gav? Councilor, will you please come join me up here? So, Aviv was a bad council member because she missed, she missed a meeting. She missed a council meeting in May. And when you miss council meetings, what we are gonna now do for now on is we're gonna make special presentations when you miss a council meeting, you had an amazing rescue. In all seriousness, we bring Aviv up here to embarrass her a little, but not to humiliate her by any means, because this was a great reason why she had a missed council meeting in May. And the reason for that is on May 9th, Aviv or Gav took the oath and became a U.S. citizen. Just stand back and leave me, let's see our photographers and great-looking pictures of us. Now, first of all, congratulations to you. Thank you. Having your expertise as a U.S. citizen is welcome. We, it's just wonderful, all this, and we were delighted. And actually, while you weren't here in May, we were celebrating and rooting for you. But it didn't just end there, because it turns out that you are adored by NHGRI and you are adored by people at the Broad Institute. And so, we conspired together. And what we conspired to do was something special, and in particular, and they're watching, I believe they're watching this live rock house, Bruce Bearan of the Broad Institute was one of the conspirators that helped. And I give credit to Betty Graham of our staff who was NHGRI's conspirator, because what you can do when somebody becomes a U.S. citizen is that you could make a request to the U.S. Capitol to get a flag that they have literally flown over the U.S. Capitol as part to commemorate the fact that you have become a U.S. citizen. So we put in an application, when we, it's meaning Broad staff like Bruce and our staff like Betty, put together an application to get that for you. And I am presenting to you, which we want you to open right here, the contents. Now, while you're opening it, I will just show you what I believe it's in the box. This comes with a certificate, and this is specially wrapped, apparently this is the gift wrap, you can actually wear, I was told, and you get that as part of the gift. It also will come with this, this is a scan of the certificate, she will eventually unveil, which was actually provided by the official architect of the Capitol, and you can see to certify the accompanying flag indeed was flown over the U.S. Capitol. In addition to that, a second certificate comes with a signature from her Senator, Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts, to certify the flag was flown over the United States Capitol for Aviva Gev in honor of her becoming a U.S. citizen. Here you can see the two certificates that I just showed you. And while she continues to unveil the flag, I will show you some of the nominating texts that we provided. Said congratulations to Aviva Gev, a distinguished genomics researcher, and becoming a citizen of the United States of America, her past and future contributions. Absolutely, contributions to biomedical research will help improve the health of people around the world. It's too big. I had no idea how big this was. Well, it's a big Capitol building, right? So, here, I'll put up this last slide. Actually, maybe we need to do it. I think we have to do it this way. And then look, no, no, you go there. You go on that side and look behind you. Here we go. Alvaro, I mean, Ernesto, are we gonna be able to get this? Are you wide enough? You got it? Okay, all yours. Here, now someone's got to teach you how to fold this. That's what I realized, is I was... So, and one of the things I'd immediately point out, since I know the size of the flag, is if Eric Lander doesn't have a big enough office for you, you should request a bigger office so you can display the whole flag. So, well, congratulations. Thank you very much. Actually, if you're gonna say anything, do it. Yes, I do want to say something. I want to say that not many countries are actually as welcoming to people who come from all over as the United States is, and that we, of course, I think all in this room, hope that this tradition of welcoming will persist through these and future times, in that there is something very special about being an American citizen, about being a member of a country where everyone in that country, if you go further enough back, except for Native Americans, has come here from somewhere else and has still decided to make this their home. And so I'm very, very fortunate to have been allowed to become an American citizen. I enjoyed my day then very much, and this is an incredibly touching moment for me. So thank you so much. Yeah, now I gotta figure out how to set it all back up. Okay, we're gonna... Before we introduce, Eric introduces Dr. Tabak. I need to correct an omission on my part, is Jennifer Montuth still in the room. Could you stand, please, Jennifer? Okay, I neglected to introduce her as one of the new hires here. Jennifer is an assistant archivist working on NHGRI's history of genomics program. Jen will curate and develop metadata for NHGRI's archival data set. Jen has a master's of arts degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in historical studies with a concentration in public history. Thank you, Jen. I will never forget you. Yeah.