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Group picture of the over 100 attendees of the Next Generation Scientist event at the John Innes Centre in 2014. The attendees are grouped together on the pavement outside the Conference Centre, a large building with brick and glass. Text on the building reads "John Innes Conference Centre". There is a large green tree in the background on the right.

Next Generation Scientists participants outside the John Innes Conference Centre in 2014
Next generation scientists

New Phytologist next generation scientists 2014

29 July 2014 - 30 July 2014
John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK)

Thank you to all of our organisers, speakers, mentors, and delegates for making the New Phytologist next generation scientists meeting in Norwich enjoyable, stimulating and productive. New Phytologist next generation scientists was a fully-funded event for early-career scientists held at the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK) on 29–30 July 2014.

Recordings

Videos from the conference can be found on the YouTube playlist, containing the outstanding plenary lectures in full, four interviews and a short highlights video. The videos were all filmed, produced and edited by Leeds Media Services.

Meeting background and scope

With support from the New Phytologist Trust and Wiley, New Phytologist next generation scientists was a fully-funded event with the unique aim to provide the next generation of plant scientists a chance to share their work with their peers and outstanding international scientists in a stimulating, supportive and exciting environment.

Key points:

  • With a focus on early-career scientists, registration was open to anyone with up to five years’ experience post-PhD, excluding career breaks.

  • Four high-profile speakers were invited to give plenary lectures and selected delegates were also invited to give talks about their work.

  • Breaks, a poster session and a social event provided opportunities to build collaborations with peers and to receive advice and feedback from established scientists in the field.

  • All delegates were given the opportunity to present and discuss their work via oral or poster presentations. Five poster prizes were awarded based on assessments by the delegates

  • Workshop on ‘How to get your work published’, run by Chris Surridge, Chief Editor, Nature Plants and Alistair Hetherington, Editor-in-Chief, New Phytologist.

  • The event was fully-funded and registration was free, included meals, accommodation and a travel grant.

Organisers

Dr Silke Robatzek                   The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK
Prof. Alistair Hetherington     University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Prof. Keith Lindsey                  Durham University, Durham, UK
Prof. Anne Osbourn               John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK

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