 Okay. I will call to order the 66th meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research. And with that, I'll turn this over to Mark Geyer. So good morning, everybody. I want to start with some introduction of new members and announcement of the retirement of some other members. September Council is the time at which there's a transition with the new slate of council members having been appointed. So there are several council members who are retiring and they are Mike Benke, Mark Chee, Rex Chisholm, Rick Myers, Pearl O'Rourke, I should say just retiring from council. Their terms are they're rotating off and I really want to on behalf of the Institute thank them so much for for their contributions during their time on council. They've been invaluable. We will miss them and I'm sure we'll be trying to take advantage of their expertise in many other ways. The new slate of members has been appointed by the secretary. Their first official meeting will be in February but we have invited them to this September meeting as ad hoc members to give them a little taste of how council meetings go so they don't come in cold turkey in February. And so the new members are Lon Carden from Glaxo Smith Klein, Joe Ecker from the Salk Institute, Howard Jacob from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Bob Nussbaum for UC San Francisco, Lucila Ono Machado from UC San Diego, and Artie Rye from Duke. And in advance of the February meeting we welcome them and we look forward to working with them for the next four years and to their to their wise council. I also want to introduce some new staff members to the council and I will ask them to stand in the back when their names are called. We have seven new program analysts in the extramural program. Cathy Sun who is working with the LC program in the Office of Population Genomics, Alexei Oshambo who's working with the knockout mouse project, Deborah Cullantoni who's working with the Genotype Textual Expression program, GTEX, Taryn Marit who's working with the sequencing program, Katya Vatolevich for the working with the 1000 Genomes program and I hope I pronounced your name right Katya. Jessica Barry who is working with the Lynx program and Sherry Joe who's working with the ENCODE program. So welcome to all those staff members and I'm sure council members will be hearing from them many times. We have two liaison members who are here today, Rhonda Schoenberg from the National Society of Genetic Counselors and Joanne Bachmann from the American Society of Human Genetics. And there are a couple of other people who I just want to introduce and let council members know that they're here. They're from outside of NIH. Adam Berger from the Institute of Medicine. Joanne Scott from NICHPEG, the National Coalition for Health Professional Education and Genetics. And Melyon Lee from Deloitte Consulting. So welcome to all of you. Is there anyone who I have failed to introduce who should be? Okay, the next order of business is the consideration of the minutes from the previous May council meeting. Does anybody have any comments on the minutes? If not, can I hear a motion for approval? Second? All in favor? Anybody object? Thank you. And finally I will call your attention to the future meeting dates which are listed on the open session agenda. The council meetings are scheduled at least two years in advance. And if any council members have any problems with any of those dates, please let us know as soon as possible. So thank you and I will turn it back to Eric for the director's report.