Last week, we were delighted to host NoCaSS 2026, bringing together ECRs in plant and microbial sciences from Norwich and Cambridge. 🦠🌱🧬 The symposium featured scientific talks, a careers panel and an entrepreneurship workshop. Huge thank you to all participants, contributors and sponsors! ✨

Registration for our long-awaited NoCaSS symposium is now open! Register here: nocass.org/registration... 🌱🦠✨ Join us for two days of fascinating science including ECR talks, poster sessions, workshops, industry presentations, and a career panel. Only for Cambridge and Norwich-based researchers

We're excited to introduce our keynote speaker of NoCaSS 2026 – Dr. Helen Fones ✨ Helen is an expert in plant-pathogen interaction and microbial ecology. 🌱🦠 Join us at NoCaSS 2026 on the 12th-14th of August at the John Innes Centre. Registration will open soon – Stay tuned. ✨

The Norwich Cambridge Science Symposium is back this summer! Save the date (13th-14th August). Check out our updated website : nocass.org, and follow @nocassofficial.bsky.social for upcoming updates on keynote speakers, panelists and workshops! (Registration opens 1st June).

Reflecting on our fabulous career panel last night. We covered big mistakes, non-linear paths and being careful about which advice to take from bosses (No need to worry PIs, we do respect your advice!)

Session 2 and 3 down! Everything from microbiome cakes, kiwifruit, GRAS-y marchantia, CNLs and 3D spatial transcriptomics.We've got it all at #NoCaSS2025

This afternoon at @nocassofficial.bsky.social hear from PhD researcher Jade Van Wijk on her work using air sequencing technology to identify fungal and bacterial wheat pathogens! buff.ly/giDIKDX #NoCaSS2025

Rapid sequencing to provide early warning of airborne pathogens

Highly sensitive, real-time, in-field detection of airborne pathogens

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MINGLE #NoCaSS 2025! Chocolate phylogenies! Flag based , allergy based or planetary ortholog position based ? A galaxy is technically sister to the milk way by planetary classification but by allergy they're distant cousins!

From chlorophyll biosynthesis, purifying huggeeee complexes , mystery 1.1 domains and nitrogen use efficiency... session 1 is done! Photosynthesis solved ? Not quite, but some good progress and very interesting talks nonetheless!

#NoCaSS2025 has almost begun!! Make sure to grab your complementary sticker at the reception desk !!

A #NoCaSS2025 teaser in 4 images!

Use #NoCaSS2025 during the conference to share your thoughts, exchanges and favourite moments!

Only two days until NoCaSS, we're looking forward to seeing the best of early career plant sciences across Cambridge and Norwich!

The Norwich Cambridge Science Symposium (NoCass) is now on Bluesky! The next student-led and student-focused NoCass event is on 4 & 5 September 2025. For more info & updates follow: bsky.app/profile/noca... 🧪#PlantSci