 Thanks Larry and welcome everyone to lunch and the Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution We're delighted to have you here today It hopefully you had a chance to see the genome Unliking life's code exhibit if you didn't there'll be time afterwards this afternoon. We're really pleased It's gonna open tomorrow to the public. It'll be open until September 1st 2014 We'll see in the museum about 7 million visitors by then and we project maybe 4 million of those visitors will be actually be in That room and see that exhibit which is a pretty compelling Concept in terms of having an impact from the educational point of view. I Want to acknowledge the team from NIH that made this a possibility Francis Collins who will be here tonight for the event and dr. Eric Green who was the The real seed of the idea initially to bring this amazing topic to this amusing museum It's it's pretty amazing to think about a Topic like genome which to the public may not seem to be the right thing for a naturalistic museum But in fact, it's exactly the right thing for a naturalistic museum since everything's alive has got a genome And we're understanding it through amazing breathtaking cutting science and in a world where the next generation of scientists are flowing through our doors At incredible numbers. This is a great way to connect cutting-edge science and the people who will be the scientists of the next generation Also want to recognize Vince Bonham dr. Carlett Easter and dr. Larry Brody from NIH who worked on the project as well as scores of others in the NIH who worked with our team from the Museum to put together an exhibit which we think will be very compelling to our audience and it provide a ladder into a very Interesting and complex topic in a way that's really compelling and irresistible What we're going to do this afternoon is Have a series of more in-depth talks to help you the members of the media get a better understanding of the Future of potential genomic science and what's going on here in the museum as well. We're collaborating with NIH to do this presentation and We're looking forward to many exciting speakers and discussions. I want to thank again the chief sponsor of the exhibit and The record here represented by Greg Luceres the chief executive officer and CEO of life technologies is Greg Lucere And I also want to thank Johnson and Johnson for their support and Susan Dillon at the middle table is here from Johnson and Johnson Thank you both for your support. So without this support We wouldn't be able to put on these kinds of exhibits and the impact is going to be huge So what I do now is turn the podium over to Larry Thompson from NIH who's going to lead the program and introduce the speakers And thank you very much for coming in. Here's Larry Thank you very much. Dr. Johnson. So We've got a little few housekeeping things first of all. This is a media briefing. So everything is on the record We are webcasting this live and we're probably have some of my staff will be tweeting this out Also at least some parts of it so that folks out in the world will know that we're What we're talking about today And so the change in the order that I would like to do is I'm going to ask Dr. Lawrence Brody Larry Brody Who is the chief of our genome technology branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute? Dr. Brody has been Consulting with the office of the Solicitor General at the Department of Justice and Helping them prepare the brief for the government for For the Supreme Court case that was just announced today So I'm going to ask Dr. Brody to come up here and tell us about it. Dr. Green has also been involved in this also But Larry has been sort of the day-to-day kind of point person on this So we'll have Larry tell us what they said and maybe something about what it might mean. Dr. Brody