 Hi, my name is Mandy Helford and I'm a scientist at Hunter College and the American Museum of Natural History. I work on killer snails. We're using the snails because they do something amazing. Our snails eat fish, which you might not think should happen, but does. And the reason it does is because they've evolved compounds over millions of years that are effective for hitting their molecular targets. And so we've co-opted what nature has done and brought it into the drug discovery world to try to find compounds that are specific for shutting down malfunctioning cells in pain and cancer. And so we're using what nature has done so effectively for millions of years to both learn about advancing drug discovery and supporting education. So what's disruptive right now in the field is figuring out how do we get these compounds to work in the body. So delivering the compounds to their target is not something that we've solved is yet. They're not small molecules. You can't pop them like a pill. And so we have to figure out how do we get them into the body in ways that are effective and efficient while maintaining their function. And so right now it's very exciting because we're learning things from nature that are not only helping us in drug discovery, they're also helping us figure out new ways to teach science to students. It's a great time to be a scientist.