<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Below is an abstract that I plan to submit for to the 8th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics. Please let me know if you have any comments.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Mark</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Recent Results from GlueX and Future Directions</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The GlueX experiment in Hall-D at Jefferson Lab provides a unique capability to search for hybrid mesons, utilizing a linearly polarized photon beam in the energy range from 8.2 to 8.8 GeV. The experiment has now acquired the majority of the data planned for the first phase of its running. The dataset has orders of magnitude more statistics than the existing world data on photoproduction at this energy. This talk will report on various GlueX physics analyses which help to better understand production mechanisms at these photon energies, initial work on understanding polarization observables which will lead to amplitude analysis, how these feed into our ultimate searches for exotic quantum number states, and opportunistic physics searches made possible by the GlueX data.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>