 I will call to order the 91st meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research. Good morning, everyone, who is joining us from wherever you are. Like all NIH advisory meetings and almost all meetings of any kind these days, this is being conducted in a virtual format because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Let me start by saying I hope everyone is safe and well and continues to be so in these incredibly challenging times. Nonetheless, we have work that must get done here at the National Institutes of Health and included in that our engagement of our advisory councils so that we can continue our mission of funding biomedical research on behalf of the United States. So we will push forward in this virtual format and do our best. And I think we are very well organized to be able to get the business that needs to get done at this advisory council meeting even if though it is in a virtual format. So with that as an interruption, let me turn this over to the able handling of our superb executive secretary, Dr. Rudy Pozzatti. Thank you, Eric. Good morning, everyone. I want to remind the council members that this meeting is being live streamed and the public can watch the open session by going to the NHGRI genome.gov website. Let me also remind people that this video will be archived and that a copy of this council meeting as well as all council meetings going back to about 2011 can be found on the NHGRI council webpage. I have a number of introductions to make this morning about new staff and new council members. Let's begin by welcoming two of our new council members. And we'll start with Lisa Parker. Lisa is professor and director of the Center for Bioethics and Health Law and the director of the Masters of Arts and Bioethics program at the University of Pittsburgh. She also directs the area of concentration in humanities, ethics and palliative care in the School of Medicine. She is a fellow in the Center for Philosophy of Science and she leads the university's research ethics and society initiative, which is designed to encourage university-wide discourse on the topic of research ethics and the social implications of science and technology. Lisa's research activities have focused on ethical concerns related to genetic and mental health research with a particular interest in informed consent, privacy and practices related to the return of genetic results to research participants. She has published and presented extensively on these topics. She has chaired the genomics and society working group of this council and has served on NIH working groups that study the management of incidental findings from genetic research projects. She has also been a member of multiple peer review panels for NHGRI's Ethical Legal and Social Implications Research Program. Lisa has served on an impressive number of advisory boards, including an NIH committee to draft guidelines on the involvement of human subjects and genetic research, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Genome Canada, the Welcome Trust, and the US Department of Defense. She has also been a member of the External Advisory Panel for NHGRI's Emerged Network. Welcome, Lisa. I also want to welcome Len Panaccio to the council. Excuse me. Len is the Deputy Director of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He's also an adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Len has a long history of conducting research, conducting disease gene discovery projects, and developing mouse models to perform functional studies of variants discovered in the human that are thought to be involved in disease development. For the past several years, he has been a grantee of the ENCODE project. Most recently is the PI of the center that conducts the in vivo characterization of ENCODE functional elements by explaining the mouse as a model study system. Len served four years on the GCAT study section in the Center for Scientific Review and has been a member of multiple special emphasis panels for NHGRI peer review meetings. He's also served as a reviewer for Welcome Trust, Genome Canada, and the Canadian Institute of Health Research. He's been on too many advisory boards to name, but I'll cherry pick a couple of them, the NHGRI External Advisory Panel for the Genome Sequencing Program and the DARPA Technology Office Defense Biotechnology Insight Group. Len has received multiple NIH grant awards from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institutes of Neurological Disease and Stroke, and from NHGRI. I will highlight that he received the White House Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers or PCAST Award in 2007. He served on the editorial boards for genome research and atherosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology. Welcome, Len. We have a number of new employees at NHGRI, pardon me. We have a number of new employees who have joined NHGRI since the May Council meeting and I'd like to introduce them to the council. Natalie, can we bring up the slides of people, please? And we'll begin with Jamil Scott. Jamil earned a doctoral degree from the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Harvard University. She went on to earn a Master's in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her postdoctoral research focused on nutritional epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, and cancer disparities. Jamil comes to us from Michigan State University where she has been a research assistant professor in the Division of Public Health, working on research projects involving health equity, disease prevention, and underserved communities. At NHGRI, Jamil will be a senior scientific program analyst working the fence bottom in the office of the director. She'll be involved in a range of projects including workforce diversity and genomics and health disparities. Welcome, Jamil. Jill Thomas. Jill has recently joined the communications and public liaison branch as lead writer and editor. Prior to coming to NHGRI, Jill worked in the Bureau of Justice Statistics for 12 years as a writer and editor where she oversaw reports and publications produced by statisticians from multiple units in the Bureau. Jill has a master's degree in folklore and children's literature from Missouri State University. Welcome, Jill. Alyssa Jones. Alyssa has very recently joined the communications and public liaison branch as a public affairs specialist. Before joining NHGRI, Alyssa was a Peace Corps volunteer working in Morocco in a youth development program. Prior to her Peace Corps experience, Alyssa worked in fashion communications and business and branding development projects for multiple clients. Alyssa has a bachelor of science degree in marketing from the University of Illinois. Welcome, Alyssa. Harry Waddell. Harry is the man who needs no introduction at NHGRI. Harry spent the two previous years as a program analyst at NHGRI's extramural research program where he worked on the H3F common fund and our Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science portfolio of brains. Much to our delight, Harry has moved forward with his career development but remains with NHGRI where he is now working in the communications and publicly his own branch as a communications specialist. I would say welcome back, Harry, but he never really left us. In fact, I think we had him working two jobs for a couple of months this summer. Amanda Conti. Amanda is a new program analyst working in the policy and program analysis branch at NHGRI. Amanda graduated from Duke University this May earning a bachelor's of science degree in biology with a concentration of genomics and a minor in neuroscience. Part of her reason for joining NHGRI is her interest in the policy and ethical issues that arise from the implementation of new genomics technologies in the clinical care setting. Welcome, Amanda. Allison McCag. Allison joined the program policy analysis branch in August as a science policy analyst. Allison earned her doctoral degree in human genetics from Johns Hopkins in 2019. Her doctoral research involved a collaboration between the Institute for Genomic Medicine and the Vermin Institute of Bioethics. She studied the policy issues associated with new therapeutics developed for cystic fibrosis. For the past year, Allison was at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University where she worked as a science aide for the New Jersey Department of Health. Welcome, Allison. Now we have a new crop of program analysts that have joined the NHGRI's extramural research program over the summer and let's begin with Sean Garen. Sean graduated from Washington College this year with a degree in biology and chemistry. He has spent the past two summers as an as an intern at the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering Division of the Naval Research Laboratory. Sean will be working on the knockout mouse phenotype project, COM, the Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science, SAGS, and the Computational Genomics and Data Science portfolio of grants. Welcome, Sean. Madison Goldrich. Madison graduated from the University of Virginia this year with a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical engineering and a minor in government. In her junior and senior years at UVA, Madison was an undergraduate teaching assistant in the Applied Math and Biomedical Engineering Departments. At NHGRI, Madison worked on the Undiagnosed Disease Network, the Genomic Medicine Working Group of Council, the phenotypes and exposures of Phoenix Toolkit, and the Variation Function and Disease portfolio of grants. Welcome, Madison. Grace Lamour. Grace graduated from Loyola University in Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology and Spanish. While at Loyola, she worked as a research assistant on a genome editing research project. At NHGRI, Grace will work on the Undiagnosed Disease Network, the Clinical Sequencing Evidence Generating Research with Cesar Project, and the Polygenic Research Program. Welcome, Grace. Allie Osgood. Allie graduated from Lewis and Clark College this spring with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology and a minor in neuroscience. At NHGRI, she will work on the H3F Common Fund Initiative, outreach, outreach activities to the small business community and our Comparative Genomics portfolio of grants. Welcome, Allie. Kathleen Rena. Kathleen graduated this spring from University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science degree in Diagnostic Genetic Sciences. At UConn, Kathleen helped develop a genetic literacy program for middle school and high school students to introduce them to technologies used in clinical genetics. Kathleen will work with the LC Research Program and will help with the Cesar Project. Welcome, Kathleen. Grace Snyder. Grace prefers to go by the nickname Gigi, which is good news for NHGRI since we now have two analysts named Grace. Gigi graduated this spring from Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and a Focus on Bioinformatics. Gigi will be working on the Genome Sequencing Program and the GWAS Catalog. Welcome, Gigi. Anna Stevens. Anna graduated this year from Pomona College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology for Senior Thesis Study Genetic Variation in the Rickettsia Genome. This summer, Anna attended the Biostatistics and Computational Biology summer program of the TH Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. Anna will work on the Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab Space or ANVIL Resource. Welcome, Anna. I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge that all or at least most of these new hires have come to NHGRI in the brave new world of virtual meetings without the benefit of live interviews. And I want to commend all my NHGRI colleagues who recruited these talented people to come to NHGRI. And I want to thank the new employees for accepting the challenge of starting a new job under these most unusual circumstances. I'd like to acknowledge our Council Society Liaison Members, Ellen Giarelli from the International Society of Nurses and Genetics, Mona Miller from the American Society of Human Genetics, Sharon Terry and Katharine Lambertson from the Genetic Alliance, and Rhonda Schaunberg from the National Society of Genetic Counselors. I'd also like to acknowledge that Natalie Pino, who is our note taker for the open session, will be providing that service for us. Normally, you would see the person taking notes of the Council Meeting Room, but since we're meeting virtually, that's no longer the case. So thank you, Natalie. Council members, I seek your approval for the Council Minutes from the May 2020 Council Meeting. Are there any comments, edits or corrections to the minutes? Thank you very much. We need a vote, please. Can I have a motion to approve the February Council Minutes? I'll take that as a vote as a nomination in a second. Anyone, all in favor, please? All right. Anyone opposed? Anyone abstaining? Thank you very much. Future meeting dates, please note them on the open session agenda. We've listed the next six Council Meetings and the dates there. If you discover a scheduled conflict, please contact me and more importantly, Comfort Brown and let us know about that. And with that, I yield the floor to Eric Green for his director's report.