...Good morning and welcome to the Applied DNA Sciences Special Meeting of Stockholders. I am James Hayward, Chairman and CEO of Applied DNA. It's my pleasure to welcome you to this special meeting. I would like to introduce you to the directors and management members who are present at this morning's meeting. We are very pleased to have the directors of the company on the call today. We are also pleased to have with us Judy Murrah, our President; Beth Jantzen, our Chief Financial Officer; Clay Shorrock, our Chief Legal Officer and President of LineaRx; Sanjay Hurry, our Head of Investor Relations; and Todd Kornfeld of McDermott Will & Emery, our outside Legal counsel. The meeting will please come to order. Jed Lavitt, a representative of the Carideo Group will serve as the Inspector of Elections for this meeting, with authority among other things to receive and determine the validity of all proxies and ballots submitted and to certify the number of shares represented at this meeting and the...
