 So it's it's great to hear so much talking already in the room Lively, you know walk in a room at 8 in the morning and deathly silent So I think we're off to a good start. We're so glad everyone could make it here our presenters our our guests and IH staff Just a few quick remarks before we get started As I think most of you can tell and know the The whole thing is being webcast there camp three cameras And so a couple things about that You're of course welcome to stand up and walk around if you if you're standing up try not to stand in front of the cameras The other thing that Maggie asked me and so there's one there one there and one up here in the front The other thing that Maggie our video person asked me to let you know is that the cameras pick up everything They row and they pick up everything. So for example your screens just so just be aware of that and Stop doing what you're doing the The shame on you the We're also running a Twitter feed a lot right alongside the the webcast and Sit sci LC is the hashtag. We of course would love it if any of you have positive things to tweet about the meeting No, but obviously, you know, you know, we we certainly welcome Welcome your feedback and for those of you who are watching. Oh, well, we'll talk about them in a minute and so the meeting's been sponsored by this is really a Big group of people from across NIH have come together to to work this out the money has come from NCI genome and NCATS the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and we've got a really big and wonderful planning group that's brought this all together And we're quite grateful to them. Oh, that's the wrong way. I knew that thanks and 14 different institutes are represented on our our NIH wide citizen science working group and so They're not all here in the room, but they will all sort of Hear from us. And so you're speaking to a good part of NIH The best parts in fact All right, so I think we've been able to talk to most of the people in the room But just as a note for the people who are watching as well and people we weren't able to talk to individually we just wanted to give Just the the background here the purpose and what our goals for this meeting are so that we can all make sure that we're speaking to the Topics that we're introducing today and we'll also talk a little bit about like how we tried to pick people here We know we couldn't represent everybody and that there are many people that we want We should reach out to in order to really make a citizen science successful at NIH, but You know we'll we want to engage people on that as well So, you know just briefly The purpose of this workshop is just to identify the types of ethical legal and social issues that come up when you're doing You know what a broad range of research that could be categorized under citizen science And as you can see from the definition that we have up there It's a very broad definition and we know that different people have different feelings about that and hopefully that will Will be able to discuss that more Although we are limiting it to you know biomedical research you're broadly including the standard clinical by Biomedical biological Studies, but also behavioral social environmental. So really the range of studies that fall under NIH's purview Okay, so just we talked about the goals to have a lot of you and For our first goal is to just identify these LC issues that come up as you're conducting research And you know we really wanted to be grounded in research practice, which is why we invited a lot of people in the room who we think are Doing the kinds of research that might fall under NIH's citizen science purview so we want to identify LC issues for that and you know for the purpose of You know giving guidance to NIH policymakers who are considering citizen science But also you know for use of for investigators not just you know NIH funded but just generally NIH or investigators who are doing The broad range of citizen science projects So that's our you know our first overarching goal But our second goal also because this is an LC meeting is to identify the gaps in LC research That could be done in order to start addressing these issues so we want to identify issues But we also want to think about how we can begin to address them And the third one we haven't really talked as much about with you But really this is the second meeting at NIH that's related to citizen science and you know We hope that there'll be more to come that this is really the beginning of how we you know engage different communities For whom citizen science is an important movement So just keep that in mind and we'll be asking people to as we move forward in this meeting for their input on who else We should be reaching out to This is a we tried to plan this to be a small group meeting But we know we're missing people and we want to know who those people are so we'll be reaching out to you on that So really if you look around the room, I it seems like a lot of you already know each other, but you know we had some ethics people who are doing work related to this or people who are familiar with Kind of the research Regulations that are out there at the landscape that might People who might be able to weigh in on the things that the types of LC issues that come up in this research But also a lot of practitioners from different types of I guess the spectrum of research practices That might fall under the umbrella of citizen science, you know, we were fully cognizant that that definition is It's still Yeah, it's fluid. It's constantly evolving and so you know just in recognition of the The way that this movement has been changing over time that we can't possibly you know speak to everything We just wanted to invite a broad range of people who might be able to inform us and really keep this like a very Discussion heavy like this isn't a meeting where experts are gonna tell you everything That's already there to know because we don't know everything that's there to know yet We can't possibly guess and so we want everybody to come and learn from each other and just really share Their experiences and hopefully we can you know, we can move forward from that Like there aren't any experts yet because this is a continually moving field and we want everybody to acknowledge that and we want everybody to Speak freely and openly and so we can really get the ideas out there. That's what we care about We we invited you here because we think we can learn a lot from you So with that in mind we have an emphasis on discussion. We've asked people to come in and give presentations But really those presentations. I think we said seven minutes. We will keep you on time and no more than five slides We asked When we talked to all of you so that we would really have time for discussion And you know we invite participation throughout the meeting even though you were assigned to a specific Part of the research area or Spectrum of the research you should talk feel free to talk throughout the entire meeting because we know that you know things that you decide at the beginning of the Research plan will affect the end and vice versa that everything is really interconnected and that the kind of the boundaries that we impose on the Research process are really artificial and so you know we acknowledge that but we needed some sort of organizing principle for having this meeting So please feel free to talk in fact We you know we encourage as much discussion as possible. We really want to get the issues out there And I think we think that's more important than anything. We're not here to come up with you know the answers today We know that there aren't any so we just want we want everything all the issues out there So just a few housekeeping items For those of you who have slides but haven't given them to Katrina yet Katrina can you just wave your hand? She's back in the back and Just you know get them to her when you can There's also a stick up here a place for memory sticks and And I believe your computer can also be plugged in up here if you prefer to do it that way the microphone so sort of in with the webcast It really helps if the people watching on the web can hear you and so these microphones You have to press a little button and it you'll see something turns red And that means you're hot and live and and every and you're being miced So please remember to do that and there's and for for folks who aren't sitting at a table There are a couple of remote mics where you can ask questions You know make comments etc We do have wireless. There's two NIH networks that you should be able to see Sometimes they work well. Sometimes they don't but hopefully they are working I Always forget what they're called the one is air air net and one is they both have NIH in the name Yeah, but thank you guess what and so let us know if you're having issues with that But hopefully you can connect if you need to Food there are right now Bren water is what we've got There's granola bars and and Water back there and there's a cafe that's opened on the first floor. I believe they serve until about three They've got coffee all all sorts of drinks and and pretty good food So feel free to duck out as you need to So restrooms are out the glass double doors go past the elevators and take a left Parking anyone who who parked here Katrina? Who do they see for for parking pass, you know? Oh That has got a sticker so you don't have to pay for parking And that goes for for everyone here And there'll be a shuttle at quarter to six picking up from here back to the hotel And then tomorrow morning again at 745 and 8 And then at the end of the meeting tomorrow We'll be able to coordinate cabs for you guys to to the airport's train stations, etc. So Can't think of oh Just just be careful Everyone's got Sort of a bit of tangle of wire underneath their tables. So just you know watch your feet and try not to you know Get caught in the trap All right, so yeah, and I guess we should get started. Thanks. Yeah, thanks everybody for coming We know you traveled far and that this you know We're asking a lot of you compare it relative to other meetings you might have attended So we really we really appreciate your being here and agreeing to participate one other quick little thing Tasha sitting up here in the corner is going to be our timekeeper and so She'll be She'll be flagging you it sort of with three minutes one minute and at the end of your talk And then no, you may not bribe her. She's a public official And then just so just for meeting structure We'll ask people who are speaking to come up here, but Not to sit at the at the panel table until after all the presentation so that you know You can actually see the presentation and that your head won't be blocking it everybody else. All right. All right, so We'll have a Liz Glanders and up or just Jennifer couch who is our Just Jennifer who is the pretty much our leader for our citizen science NIH