 Announcements of items and items of interest. There are several documents, you can find them in the ECB under the open session tab. They're also linked to the agenda on the Council webpage. There are three reports from our liaison societies. These are updates from the American Society of Human Genetics, National Society of Genetic Counselors, and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. There's also a policy statement from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics that defines the scope of practice for the specialty of medical genetics in the FES. Of interest to you, I would recommend it. It's time for the conflict of interest statement. So this statement and description of conflicts applies to the applications that will be reviewed in the closed session. You must leave the meeting room when applications submitted by your own organization are being individually discussed. In the case of state, higher education, or other systems with multiple campuses geographically separated, own organization of the PI is intended to mean the entire system except where a determination has been made that the components are separate organizations for the purpose of conflict of interest. You should avoid situations that could give rise to charges of conflict of interest, whether real or apparent. For example, you should not participate in the deliberations or actions of any application from or involving your spouse, your child, a recent student, a recent teacher, professional collaborator with whom you've worked closely, close personal friend, or a scientist with whom you've had a longstanding scientific or personal difference of opinion. The NHGRI staff will determine the appropriate action based on recency, frequency, and strengths of such associations or interests, either positive or negative, and will instruct you accordingly. In council actions in which you vote on a block of applications without discussing any individual one, the on-block action, your vote will not apply to any application from any institution fulfilling the criteria and descriptions of conflict of interest and after the vote. Please sign the conflict of interest form and disposal of confidential material form, which are provided at your seats. They'll be collected at the end of the meeting. We have one other task to perform before we end the open session. Yes, I will moderate this, but Rudy is going to help. So before we draw the open session of this council meeting to a close, we have one final task, which we delayed until the afternoon. Usually we do this first in the morning, but we wanted one other council member to get here to do this. So, September, people have been around a long time and council enough years have known that September is parole month and NIH advisory councils, meaning that each council member serves a four-year term that at times might feel like a prison sentence, but we've now, but indeed it's time to get out of jail, so to speak. And so we've now concluded that four members of this council are fully rehabilitated and it's time to return them to society or at least back to the genomics community from once they came. So with some sadness, but a great deal of gratitude, we are bidding farewell to four members of our council, three of which are here. So I'll do these one at a time and Rudy has departing gifts for each of you. So Amy McGuire, Amy is one of two JD legal scholars on the council and is a member of council's genomics and society working group. Her long-standing expertise in research ethics and informed consent issues related to genomics research has served us well. But Amy's direct involvement in both the production, genome sequencing and clinical genome sequencing activities going on at Baylor give her deep and well-informed and well-respected perspective of the challenges facing large-scale genomics and its path to successful implementation in the clinical setting. This has allowed her to give us valuable input in many different areas during her years on council. So thank you, Amy, for all that you've done and we'll continue to do for NHGRI. Next is Tony Monaco. Tony has a long and distinguished research career in human genetics, but he's also brought the perspective of a university leader, in his case a university presidency, to the council deliberations. His ability to advise NHGRI on contemporary genetics research activities coupled with his knowledge and interest in training and enhancing diversity in universities has made Tony a valued member of the council. I'll also note that Tony holds a perfect attendance record over the past four years, which is truly remarkable when you consider some of the hellish Boston snowstorms that seemed to have aligned with some of our council meetings over the last two winters. So thank you, Tony. And last but certainly not least, the Carlos Bustamante. We recruited Carlos to the council over four years ago because of a sophisticated understanding of population structures and of genomic variation among and across species. Now, you'd be hard pressed to find any aspect of genomics research, evolution, or computational biology that Carlos is not involved in or keenly interested in. And as an example of that, Carlos is NHGRI's representative on the council of council that advises the NIH-wide Division of Program Coordination Planning and Strategic Initiatives, otherwise known as the NIH Common Fund. Well, whatever topic under discussion, you'll always get an enthusiastic, well-informed, and good, humored opinion from Carlos. So thank you, Carlos. You will be missed as well. So not with us today, but as Jim Evans, who's the fourth party member, and we will hold our applause until February because Jim is actually going to join us for the February council meeting. A traded not coming this time is coming in February. And so we're going to hold, I guess those gifts aren't even here, we're going to hold those gifts and the well-crafted paragraph that Rudy prepares for me. We will hold all of that until, which I added, but Rudy, I want to give two credit for Rudy, help it out. So we'll hold that, we'll give the applause and gifts and paragraph to Jim when he's here in February. So service on council is intellectually engaging and it's a certain prestige associated with that role, or so we're told. But it does also carry some, actually quite a bit, of responsibility. And in the era, especially that this council and these graduating members have faced of flat funding, which forces agonizing decisions on us that really are not always all that pleasant to contemplate. So I really am grateful to the three of you, as well as Jim, for really helping us through these difficult challenges, for contributing thoughtful ideas, for contributing to discussion in productive ways. So again, from all of us at NHL, I thank you very much for your service on our council. But as Rudy always likes to say, we know your email address. We know how to reach you. And we'll find other ways of continuing to have you help us. Consider the peer review opportunities that are now open to you. So, and that's that. And with that, I will call to a close the open session of this advisory council meeting. And we will take a 10 minute break or something. Yeah, 10 minutes for them to disconnect the cameras and then we'll reconvene in a closed session, OK? Thank you.