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<palign="justify"> NoCaSS 2025 is back! After a successful collaboration amongst students and post-docs to host NoCaSS in 2024 we will be continuing to welcome post-docs as well as students. The Norwich-Cambridge Science Symposium will be hosted in Cambridge over two days to allow students and post-docs to present their research, form collaborations, and learn from each other. We are also introducing scientist-oriented panels on careers, and fun mingling activities, to help the participants be active members in plant and microbial research locally and across the world.</p></center>
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<center><h1> NoCaSS 2026 </center>
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<pstyle="text-align: justify;"> NoCaSS brings together early career researchers (ERCs) from the University of Cambridge and the Norwich Research Park to present our research and form new connections. It is unique in being organised by ERCs, for ERCs. Since its inception over a decade ago, it has grown into a highly anticipated annual event, bringing together over 120 participants last year. </p>
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<pstyle="text-align: justify;">This year, NoCaSS will take place on the 13th – 14th August 2026 at the John Innes Centre in Norwich. The symposium will span two days and feature student talks, poster sessions, workshops, industry presentations, and addresses from keynote speakers.
<palign='justify'>NoCaSS was founded in 2013 by Annis Richardson and Jo Harrison, who were alumni of University of Cambridge and PhD students at the John Innes Centre. The founders of the conference seized upon the opportunity to connect two physically close plant research centres in a day of exchange of ideas, new collaborations, and innovations for future projects that removed the intimidation of large, international conferences for students. It helped connect the two premiere plant research centres and provided opportunities for discussion and collaboration that was sparse for students, in a day-long symposium known as Norwich-Cambridge Student Symposium. Thus, NoCaSS was born and has been held on a regular basis as a student-led and student-oriented conference.</p>
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<palign='justify'> Read the original blog by the co-founder Jo Harrison <atarget="_blank" href="https://johninnessvc.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/nocass-2014/">here</a> and watch the video below. </p>
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<pstyle="text-align: justify;">NoCaSS was founded in 2013 by Annis Richardson and Jo Harrison, who were alumni of University of Cambridge and PhD students at the John Innes Centre. The founders of the conference seized upon the opportunity to connect two physically close plant research centres in a day of exchange of ideas, new collaborations, and innovations for future projects that removed the intimidation of large, international conferences for students. It helped connect the two premiere plant research centres and provided opportunities for discussion and collaboration that was sparse for students, in a day-long symposium known as Norwich-Cambridge Student Symposium. Thus, NoCaSS was born and has been held on a regular basis as a student-led and student-oriented conference.</p>
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<pstyle="text-align: justify;"> Read the original blog by the co-founder Jo Harrison <atarget="_blank" href="https://johninnessvc.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/nocass-2014/">here</a> and watch the video below. </p>
<palign='justify'>NoCaSS was then held in Cambridge in 2014 and reiterated to Norwich in 2015. After a hiatus, NoCaSS was held in Norwich in 2017. A few more years of hiatus and unfortunate delays posed by the pandemic, led to a virtual iteration of the conference hosted in Norwich in 2021.</p>
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<palign='justify'> Read the blog post on the 2014 NoCaSS <atarget="_blank" href="https://johninnessvc.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/nocass-2014-2/">here</a>.</p>
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<pstyle="text-align: justify;">NoCaSS was then held in Cambridge in 2014 and reiterated to Norwich in 2015. After a hiatus, NoCaSS was held in Norwich in 2017. A few more years of hiatus and unfortunate delays posed by the pandemic, led to a virtual iteration of the conference hosted in Norwich in 2021.</p>
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<pstyle="text-align: justify;"> Read the blog post on the 2014 NoCaSS <atarget="_blank" href="https://johninnessvc.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/nocass-2014-2/">here</a>.</p>
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<pstyle="text-align: justify;"> Since 2024 NoCaSS has been an event welcoming post-docs as well as students, expanding the scope of the symposium to all early career researchers. NoCaSS 2025 also introduced scientist-oriented panels on careers, and fun mingling activities, to help the participants be active members in plant and microbial research locally and across the world. </p>
<p>Harry is excited to contribute to NoCaSS 2025, where he will help support the organization and foster a collaborative environment for early-career researchers.</p>
<p> Jacob is a first-year PhD student in Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge within the group of Prof. Henderson, where he is studying a region in the chromosomes that is responsible for cell division but, paradoxically, it is poorly conserved across the Tree of Life. He is funded by "la Caixa" Foundation, a Spanish Fellowship programme.</p>
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<p>He enjoys doing bioinformatics, tennis and, from time to time, wet lab. In NoCaSS 2025, Jacob is excited to help in funding acquisition and has developed a partnership with Nucleate to highlight Plant Sciences entrepreneurship for attendees.</p>
<p>Karen is a pre-doc in Tatsuya Nobori's group at TSL. Karen is interested in plant-microbiome interactions and spatial transcriptomics. Outside the lab, I enjoy listening to classical music, playing the piano, swimming and sometimes inline skating. </p>
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<p>Karen is a pre-doc in Tatsuya Nobori's group at TSL. Karen is interested in plant-microbiome interactions and spatial transcriptomics. Outside the lab, she enjoys listening to classical music, playing the piano, swimming and sometimes inline skating. </p>
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<p>Last year, she was at NoCaSS as a master's student, and she really enjoyed meeting and connecting with researchers from diverse backgrounds, so this year she is excited to be on the committee to help make this an exciting and inspiring event for everyone.</p>
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<p>Amber is a first-year rotation PhD student at the John Innes Centre and TSL. She is interested in the interactions between plants, pathogens and beneficial microbes. She enjoys microscopy, drawing and going for walks through nature </p>
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<p>Amberis looking forward to meeting new people and learning about everyone’s research at NoCaSS 2026.
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<p>Amber is a first-year rotation PhD student at the John Innes Centre and TSL. She is interested in the interactions between plants, pathogens and beneficial microbes. She enjoys microscopy, drawing and going for walks through nature.</p>
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<p>Amber is looking forward to meeting new people and learning about everyone’s research at NoCaSS 2026.
<p> Zsuzsi is a pre-doc in Saskia Hogenhout's group where her work focuses on the subcellular effects of phytoplasma effectors on plant health. She enjoys combining computational and wet-lab techniques in her work, and is a keen ballroom dancer. </p>
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<p>In NoCaSS 2026, Zsuzsi is excited about showcasing the great work of early career researchers across Norwich and Cambridge.</p>
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