 Well good morning everyone. I'd like to call the 63rd meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research to order. Thank you all for coming. It's going to be a busy and important couple of days and we have a lot of ground to cover. So let's just move right into this. I'll turn this over to Mark for a series of things. So normally we start with introduction of new members and staff and we actually have quite a few to introduce, but before we do that there are four council members who are for whom this is the last, their last meeting as they're rotating off of their term of duty. I have to say that we are sorry to see them leave the council. I would expect that they're a lot happier and to have their time back. All have been valuable advisors for the past several years in many cases even long before that before they came on council and in all of these cases we hope they will continue to be after they're rotate off. And we have a small token of our appreciation. So the first is Claire. There's her ligate. I should say all of them are involved in really front line issues that the NHGRI is dealing with now and will continue to be. Claire is as you know heavily involved in microbiome and all of these issues are things which are going to come up during this this council meeting. Jeff Ginsburg. Jeff in making valuable contributions in the area of clinical applications. Pilar Asario. And maybe taking it a little bit early is David Valley who's not here yet. I hope we hope he didn't think that last meeting was his last meeting. I prefer what I imagine they've not been here. So all of those views and all the other top of the zone. But besides the good news when you go to be off. You've got a sign certificate of appreciation from the secretary. And now we're introducing you this time. A wonderful last piece of double I'm not a cracker. We have four ad hoc members who are joining us for this meeting. Actually, the first one Carlos Bustamante who's not here will be joining the council. But his processing hasn't been completed yet. But he'll be here as an ad hoc. And then Sean Eddy, Bill Gilbert and David Malcolm are all joining for this meeting. And we really appreciate your willingness to do this. We get those lovely paper weights as alumni. Absolutely. You got to serve again and again and again. We have several new staff members, including a number of new program analysts. And I'll just ask them to stand when I call their name. Carolyn Kelly, who is working with the ENCODE program. Cengue Mahomba, who is working with H3Africa. Ian Marpuri, working with population genomics. Glenn McFadden is working with the Molecular Libraries program. Adity Shrivastava is working with TCGA. I got her name right, but I didn't get the program right. And Tamar Rumiim is working with the DAC and the LC program. Thank you. Also want to introduce Derek Scholes, who is chief of the newly hired chief of the Policy and Program Analysis branch in the director's office, OPCE, which you'll hear more about later in the open session, and Katrina Kapusti, who is newly here as an ASHG and HGRI policy fellow. Thank you. As always, we have our reliable and valued liaisons, Rhonda Schoenberg from the National Society of Genetic Counselors, and Joanne Bachmann from the American Society of Human Genetics. And also want to introduce one other guest, Rear Page from RTI. Thank you. And is there anybody else who I haven't introduced who should be? If not, we can go on to approval of the minutes, which you should have at least had access to. Are there any comments or corrections or additions to the minutes from the last meeting? If not, can I have a motion to approve? Second, all in favor? Anyone opposed? And finally, I will just call your attention to the future meeting dates for the council. For some of you, you can ignore those. For the rest of them, please make sure that they're on your calendars, and if there are any problems with any of them for you, let us know as soon as possible. And I'll turn it back to Eric.