 Hi everyone and welcome to our San Jose Gateway PhD Spring Virtual Residency. I am excited about the work that you are going to be doing over the next two days and really wish I were able to join you like I normally do but unfortunately I have a conflict and so I am taping this video welcome message instead. However I do want to tell you that I did take a close look at the agenda that you will be following over the next two days and then think you have a fantastic lineup and I always love hearings about the poster sessions and to participate in those and so I'm especially disappointed that I'm going to be missing those snapshot updates that you'll be doing. I personally think that posters are a great vehicle for sharing your research as it forces you to be disciplined about what you are able to display in a poster and also what you're able to say about it in a very short period of time so it's a really nice way to hear about everybody's research and to give feedback at the same time so I wish you all luck with being getting good feedback on your work and also I see that you have several research updates from faculty members as well and I'm sure you're going to enjoy hearing about Virginia Tucker, Lisa Dolby, Tanya Sen, Nicholas Rocha, and Michael Stevens work and what they are doing currently with their research projects and I also wanted to congratulate all of you on the progress that you're making through your research journeys and I want to encourage you all to continue to work hard and to make great progress and to reach out to people in your cohorts to get feedback from them and also to give feedback as well and also to make sure that you are leveraging our excellent faculty members and the diversity of their research expertise that they bring to the table. They are very committed to your success and are great resources for all of you so I hope you will take great advantage of their availability to you and their areas of expertise but again I wish you all the best over the next two days and I look forward to hearing getting updates about from the key takeaways from what you discuss and what you learn and about all the great progress you're going to continue to make and I am looking forward to seeing you in August in person in San Jose and I hope that you will be have a great next few months and I will see you all in August so have a great time and I will see you soon. Thanks a lot everyone.