 All right, so everyone please be advised that we will be having open-floor discussions and that's at the end of every day I believe it's around 445 When we have the open-floor discussions, we have chairs that are reserved in the front for the speakers So for if you've spoken for that day, please attend the open-floor discussions by sitting in the front row The other thing that we'd like to do is collect questions for the open-floor discussions So if you're in the current century and you like to tweet the hashtag would be pound-side microbiome for those of us who are still living with the Aztecs you could use email and send it to nigh.gov for the human microbiome vision HM vision and and Even more older technology you can post some questions on the poster board We have people that are collecting the questions from the pound hashtag and they'll be collected together for the open-floor discussions The other thing to be aware of is that we are webcasting and what that means is that many of the presentations if we've gotten permission for you will be put out on the web. We are also Pushing out Just other scenes from the conference. So be advised you may be on the webcast even if you're just sitting in the audience I would like everyone to be aware that we are going to have a meeting report That'll be a summary of the presentations as well as an assessment of the future of the microbiome and Discussing what we identify as gaps needs and challenges the current authors for the meeting report are Rob Knight and Jacques and if you're interested in influencing the outcome of the report or Like to actually contribute some text please contact them and talk to them about Contributing and that would be terrific Now presenters we're not going to mess around we really are going to require that you reserve five minutes or more for questions and You're going to be hearing this from the session chairs but I'd also just like to remind you that it's important for you to dedicate a little bit of your talk to Addressing issues associated with the gaps needs and challenges and as I mentioned if you presented for the day Please sit in the front row Okay, so now I'd like to just start to address really why we're here What our charge is what we had in mind for the purpose of this meeting and I'll say at the outset Very sincerely this meeting was put together to hear the input from the community and to broadly share that input with the the staff at NIH So This is what we would really like to do we'd like to characterize the current state of microbiome research for an overall 10-year vision and We were taking that very seriously We'd really like to take a look at How the study of the human microbiome is of relevance to all the institutions? So the the all the institutes the the idea here is is that the microbiome was jump-started by Funding from the common fund but now it's spreading out to all the institutes And we'd like all of them to be thinking very seriously about the implications of taking on this research We'd like to increase awareness Across all the institutes about the types of gaps and needs and challenges that were faced with We also know that there could be more coherent oversight of policies as things Spread out to the different institutes so you could imagine issues like data release or Getting IRB approval identify areas where there might be Useful to have common resources or developing partnerships between the institutes that will benefit microbiome research We also want to explore how NIH could be working with other government funding agencies To integrate microbiome studies into human health, but also to be thinking about Think initiatives like for example what NSF is doing with herbs microbiome Communities how these activities could be could be Related together more effectively. These are the types of things that we are taking very seriously You'll see this in the outcome of the report and you'll see this with the discussions that we have During question-and-answer periods and at the end of the day Okay, so again, I'd really like to thank everybody very sincerely for being here I have the pleasure of Introducing somebody who's our next speaker all of us know Francis Collins is the director of national institutes of health Dr. Collins was awarded the presidential medal of freedom in 2007 and national medal of science for his leadership with the human genome project I think most of you know about that. I also like to point out Partly because I saw him give a great commencement speech at University of Maryland He's he himself is dedicated to bench discoveries to help patients To and to improve medicine Dr. Collins has also written a lot of books that I'm very thankful that he has Started to bring our research also to the to the minds of the lay public and also appreciate in a personal level that his Books have started to establish a dialogue between science and faith, which I think is terrific I think the important thing that we should all be aware of is Dr. Collins was instrumental with establishing the HMP But not only that he's responsible for all the projects that we see here the human genome project the hat map of emerge and code and So I think obviously he's had profound influence on the field of genomics So when you applaud for him applaud the fact that he's had that impact on our field