 Okay. Good morning, everyone. Let me welcome you to the 64th meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research and tell you that we actually find ourselves in a slightly unusual circumstance I wanted to bring to your attention. Normally sitting to my left is Mark Geyer, and Mark I think normally sits here, for I'm sure over half of those 64 maybe far more than those. And in the middle of the night Mark was called away to a family emergency, a medical emergency, and will not be able to be joining us. Now there is, so Rudy Pazzotti has stepped in and will be serving as Executive Secretary during this meeting. And in fact that's not a completely unexpected circumstance because we had already been planning that over time. Rudy was going to take the reins of this responsibility. But we had a plan where Mark was going to be like Obi-Wan Kenobi and teach the new Jedi Knight how to perform the service, and there wasn't time for that. So needless to say, we are going to fly by the seat of our pants and may the force be with us. But our thoughts are with Mark and his family right now and as a result we will be juggling things in various ways. And if it looks like it's because we're doing it's only because Mark had the master plan for this council meeting and we don't have it. So we're reconstructing it. I will tell you that he was scheduled to give a portfolio review that will not happen this council meeting. We will plan to have a formal portfolio review at the May council meeting instead. And I will tell you that with rookies on board in terms of running a council meeting without Mark, we will be juggling. So I'm sure the agenda is going to shift with time as we go. It's also an unusual council meeting in that we have a fixed event in the middle and that's at one o'clock today. We are using this council meeting as a venue and an opportunity to have a second of two public meetings that are required associated with our proposal for reorganizing the institute. And so again council has been aware this was coming and it just means that we're going to have to adjust things and actually break for lunch on time to make sure people have time to get lunch and then be back here with sufficient time to have this public meeting precisely start at one o'clock. So bear with us. We will take good care of you and let you know as the schedule gets adjusted. But if there's some hiccups in this, it's only because we have rookies on board here right now. So I'll turn this over to Rudy for some of the steps that have to be followed before my director's report. Okay, I can't resist not starting with a story. Years ago, the woman who actually trained me to be an SRO was telling me that all you have to do is get really good people in the room and for a review and everything will take care of itself. And she cited this occurrence where she'd gotten a phone call at six o'clock in the morning and someone was gravely ill and could she step in and be the SRO for this meaning that she had had absolutely no preparation. So she went and she had great chair and she said it worked. It'll run itself. And I came home and I told this story to my wife who's also an SRO and I said, God, wouldn't that be really exciting to have that experience and just leap in and do something? And she gave me that raised eyebrow look that only spouses can give one another and said something like, be careful what you wish for. All right, well, good morning and welcome everyone. I should know what council meeting this is, the number, but only Mark knows that information. We have a couple of new council members to introduce. Jim Evans from UNC and Amy McGuire from Baylor College of Medicine. We should also introduce the council liaison members and I'm going to ask them to introduce themselves and I think maybe one of you is new. We're also going to introduce some new staff members here at NHGRI. Anastasia Bodnar. Are you here please? Please rise. Thank you. Anastasia is correct me if I'm wrong. A visiting fellow, is that correct? Thank you. And Nicole Lockhart is a detail from NCI. Nicole, are you here? Oh, welcome Nicole. Yeah, Nicole, a minute, half a minute introduction about your duties here. I know you're helping out with the ethical legal implications program. And I'm detail from NCI. Great. Welcome. Okay and Lindsay Lund is a new program analyst working on TCGA, Cancer Genome and Amy. And Susan Toy, Grants Management Specialist. Susan, are you? Welcome. Okay, we have, according to the sign-in sheet to guests, Marianne Ovinger from University of Michigan. Welcome Marianne. And Joan Scott from Nitchpeg. Anyone else? There is one other new staff member in the office of the director is Allison Manditch, is my new special assistant. And so she's actually not physically here now, she's actually at an orientation. But you may have, she actually used to work in the extramural research program here when she was Allison Peck. And, but she replaces Susan Vasquez, who moved to Germany actually with her family. But it's an important name for you to know Allison Manditch because you often will get emails from her on my behalf. And so it's a name I want to pay attention to when you get emails from her. And I beg your pardon, a new council liaison has just walked in. Could you introduce yourself please? Thank you. Welcome. Okay, normally we would have approval of the minutes from the September council meeting. Those minutes have not been completed yet. So we'll handle that offline with council probably through email. On the open session agenda, I'll call your attention to the coming meeting dates for the next two years, this 2012, 13 and 14 as well. If you see a, if you, if your book for February of 2014, see me about other matters, but certainly if you see a schedule conflict, would you notify? Send it to me, why not? And we'll try to sort that out. Okay, that's it for now. I think I'm going to turn over to Eric for the director. Well, you've done well, Jedi Knight. Thank you. And Rudy had all of 20 minutes to realize he had this responsibility this morning. So