 The HDF has really impacted my research and my career from the very beginning, primarily through the workshop program of the HDF. I went to my first HDF workshop when I was a postdoc in 1992 and met Nancy Wexler at that workshop and continued to be invited to workshops during the early part of my career and and onward, but those interactions that happened at workshops were central to the development of my career, both for the opportunities that they brought to me through interactions with senior investigators and the ideas that germinated from those workshops. The ability to really think outside the box and brainstorm with thought leaders in the field about where the research was going and that opportunity, those opportunities have really, I feel, driven my career.