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NoCaSS 2025
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.
History of NoCaSS
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.
Read the original blog by the co-founder Jo Harrison here and watch the video below.
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.
Read the blog post on the 2014 NoCaSS here.
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