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              <center><h1>Contact</center>
                <center> <p> For all questions or queries please contact us at <a href="mailto:JIC.NoCaSS@jic.ac.uk">JIC.NoCaSS@jic.ac.uk</a></p> </center>
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              <center><h1> NoCaSS 2026 </center>
                <p style="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>
                <p style="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.
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              <center><h1>History of NoCaSS</center>
                <p style="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>
                <p style="text-align: justify;"> Read the original blog by the co-founder Jo Harrison <a target="_blank" href="https://johninnessvc.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/nocass-2014/">here</a> and watch the video below. </p>
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	            <p style="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>
	            <p style="text-align: justify;"> Read the blog post on the 2014 NoCaSS <a target="_blank" href="https://johninnessvc.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/nocass-2014-2/">here</a>.</p>
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            <p style="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>
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			<center><h1>Gallery</center>
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                        <p style="color:#808080;"><centre>NoCaSS 2013, Norwich </centre></p>
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                        <p style="color:#808080;"><centre>NoCaSS 2017, Norwich</centre></p>
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                        <p style="color:#808080;"><centre>NoCaSS 2021, Virtual meeting</centre></p>
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                        <p style="color:#808080;"><centre>NoCaSS 2023, Cambridge</centre></p>
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                        <p style="color:#808080;"><centre>NoCaSS 2024, Norwich</centre></p>
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