 Just before you go to lunch. I just want a couple minutes of your time Just a couple of housekeeping things or kind of interest points, you know each day we've been calling out How many people have joined the webcast so on Wednesday was on the order of hundreds? Yesterday was on the order of 250 People joining the webcast watching the webcast and today the numbers have steadily increased and now we're back to the 250 So there's tremendous interest outside this room. I think that's very gratifying on a particular housekeeping point several people asked us what's going to happen to the webcasts Our team back here is going to have the webcasts available on the same link Or on the genome gov link the same webcast number the talks will be Linked to the agenda so you can actually go through the agenda and and review specific talks I think that's very nicely organized as I understand it The the webcast the videos will be available starting the week of August 5th and NIH always makes transcripts whenever they do a webcast so the transcripts from all the talks will be available Starting the week after beginning the week of August 12th. So a good deal of the meeting will be Archived and recorded third housekeeping point today's the last page to vote for your favorite poster and be sure and vote At the end of lunch is when we cut off voting There's a belt box right outside the poster room So please be sure and vote and the individual who wins will actually get a placard or certificate. So it's worthwhile So we haven't decided what to do about that we'll contact the speakers and figure out how they want to handle that So we'll be able to to post a notice or something to the participants and let us let you know what we're gonna do with the slides I know what you mean So we never we never negotiated that with the speaker So we want to try to work with them to see how they feel about sharing their slides So we'll we'll get back to you We'll probably send like a global email or whatever To let you know what we're planning to do and we're going to send out a survey to the participants anyway So we'll probably add some follow-up items about this meeting after the meeting is over within the next week So actually I also want To take this opportunity to thank a lot of people a lot of people I mean, I certainly was called out as a person During the speakers, but I want to make sure you folks here understand This was a major undertaking involving a lot of people it took about a year to organize and I just want to point out that Probably a genesis of this meeting was about two years ago when Jeff Gordon was talking to me one day and gave me this charge And I thought oh my god You have to get all that he said you have to get all the NIH directors in the room together to talk about this And I said well, I can't do that but the idea kind of started to grow in my mind about how could we get the NIH together in the second Piece that that that fed into the development of this meeting was we really started to see this tremendous increase across the ICs on the microbiome So clearly that seemed like the time was ripe And then I went to a triple AS symposium last year that Jeff Gordon organized and he had this structure We had each speaker call out a current gap near challenge in the context of the talk I said bingo. That's what we can do with all the speakers. So really we have to credit even though Jeff's not here We have to credit him with really planting the seed for this idea So what I want to do though is because I pointed out there are so many people that were involved If you could just raise your hand or stand up or in some way acknowledge your presence in the room I think it'd be great great for all the participants. So first of all Owen's here to my left Owen and Michelle Jillio is she in the room? Oh great great. They were tasked with Organizing this meeting and I don't know that they understood what they were going to undertake when I when I made that request of them and Michelle has been absolutely. I had no idea. She had this this kind of organizational skill set So she's been amazing and keeping us on track and Probably on budget Let's see There's a so it wasn't just us there was a core committee, so there's two layers There's a core committee which involved Rob Knight and Jacques Ravel. So Jacques Ravel is here And I think Rob is in the room perhaps They helped a lot in terms of really brainstorming about the structure of the meeting and who we should invite and what are the goals of the meeting? Also that core group was part of a larger committee that involved representatives from 16 different Institutes at the NIH that were part of the organizing committee We had lots of conference calls and Google Docs and spreadsheets and all that to try to make this agenda happen So you've seen I'm not gonna ask you to raise your hand, but you've seen many of these same committee members Serving as session co-chairs or co-moderators or running the mics around as we have open floor discussions So they've been engaged on all levels to make this meeting a success I do not want to forget the strategic results meeting contractor Sue Dilly And I think I'm in a garbled Janine's last name Obazitsky and done and Janet Burt are they've been in the back, but they were very Collaborative and helping us make this meeting happen making lots of creative suggestions about how to make it successful So I really appreciate their their input the sponsors You know they've been kind of silent partners here But they contributed a lot of money and they've been in the back here They want to sell their products, but they've been an important financial support for this meeting and I Want to call this out Chris Wellington and Nick DiGiacomo. They're in the back of Chris and Nick raise your hands Shilah is not in the room a Shilah Chiba was also an analyst with the HMP and they are the You know the the backbone to keep all these activities going so you really help But they also contributed in two ways both Dr. Collins slides and Eric Green slides Included data that Nick and Chris collected like for example the HMP citation data or the Distribution of funds across the NIH in the microbiome area, so they actually computed contributed data to their talks Which I really want to commend them for that In the back another set of silent people Are the NHGRI team Maggie Bartlett Alvaro and seen us and Steve Benowitz. I think Steve is still in the room They have been running all the webcasts They came Tuesday evening at 9 o'clock and spent four hours setting up the cameras Setting up the stage and lighting and all that so that this became a seamless process for webcasting broadcasting this Across the web, so I commend you folks in the back Common fun. I know Mary Perry's in the room Mary Perry not only support provided the lion's share of the funding to make this meeting happen But also encouragement and real excitement and was very Interested in the new model of this meeting that really want to develop. So I really appreciate that Mary and The invited speakers, you know You really embrace that charge for this meeting and really worked hard to share your thoughts about current gaps Nature challenges so we could all really think about if those are things that we need for the field I really appreciate your embracing that the spirit of the charge Ed Young is in the room somewhere Maybe he's not he was here earlier He'll come back in the afternoon We called Ed right away when we realized we want to have these open floor discussions and he had moderated the the Paris meeting the international human microbiome Congress in Paris last year and it occurred to us You know, he might be a great person to do this for us. So I really appreciate this not his normal role He's a journalist, but he has a tremendous interest in the microbiome So we really appreciate his willingness to be game to achieve our results and All you participants in the room, you know when I think about it now saying this to a couple of people Most of us do not go to the same meetings if you look at the distribution of expertise and disciplines across this room We're looking at four or five or six different scientific communities that come around around the microbiome So that requires the interest and willingness to in fact go across disciplines And so I think to have all these different scientific communities coming together to talk about the microbiome You folks really made this a successful meeting And Jeff, I do you want to say this wherever you are? I hope that you feel like we've met your challenge and I'm very proud to to be part of this. Thank you Let me just add a little more color to this. I wanted to Just to talk briefly about the successes of this meeting I am mightily impressed by how many people are still in the audience I think it's absolutely amazing and the the data point of 250 people watching. I just can't believe that and Obviously, we've had just an incredible Collection of luminaries to present and I think it's just an incredibly successful meeting from that angle Let's not forget that we're also going to get a report out in nature I'm really excited that last night. I attended a dinner where people were sitting down to talk about protocol standardization and I just couldn't believe how much it touched my heart to hear Julian Davey say that this is the most exciting time in in his whole life and Since this is the most exciting microbeat my bio meeting ever. He must be at an absolute peak, right? This is it right now. So I just want to just want to say I think what's so interesting about this community Is it reminds me a little bit of one of his slides that said that bacteria are both? Competitive, but they're also highly cooperative, and I think that's very true for everybody out here I think the the vibe of This can consortium or this group of people is that we're just so supportive Lita has really rigged everything So we've really been listening to each other and we're establishing this great relationship to NIH So all of these elements that we've just been talking about Lita has played an instrumental role in it all, okay? I marvel at the fact that this group of people We don't hate each other We really seem to be getting along very nicely And that's because of the the tone and the vibe and what you have just absolutely brought to hold this So let's just thank Lita for Now what are we gonna do about lunch? Another housekeeping because we're running late what I'm gonna recommend is that we have lunch for an hour because I don't want to Torture you for the rest of the day have your one hour lunch, but come back at one rather than 1245 so the rest of the schedule for the remainder of the afternoon will be shifted now by 15 minutes Okay, thank you. So come back at one. Thank you