Share Your Expertise and Outcomes
ASPB’s goal is to present the best new and most significant research in plant biology.
Presenting to a global audience of academics, field experts, students, and others helps raise your professional visibility and gives your work the exposure and recognition it deserves.
Submission Categories
Poster Abstract Proposal
Opens: September 15, 2025
Closes: June 19, 2026
All members of the plant science community are invited to present a poster. All poster presenters must submit an abstract and produce a poster. Abstracts submitted after the deadline will not have a poster number, and the poster will be in the “unnumbered posters and onsite additions” area of the exhibition hall.
Community-Proposed Concurrent Symposium Proposal
Develop a 1 hour 45-minute concurrent scientific symposia. As the proposal submitter, you will be fully responsible for:
- Assigning a session chair to serve as primary point of contact for the program committee.
- Designing a concurrent symposium that includes five (5) 20-minute talks.
- Recruiting five (5) speakers to participate in the symposium. The session chair can be one of the 5 speakers
Workshop Proposal
Interactive workshops provide hands-on learning opportunities with clear learning objectives. As the proposal submitter, you will be responsible for designing the workshop. Workshop topics range from sharing novel techniques to career development to mental health and everything in between. Workshops can be 60 or 90 minutes long and delivered in-person or virtually.
Independent Abstract Proposal
All members of the plant biology community are invited to submit an abstract on their topic of expertise. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and, if selected, placed in a concurrent symposium developed by the Program Committee. Abstracts not selected for a concurrent symposium talk or received after the deadline will be offered the chance to present a poster.
What You Need to Know
- Presentations and posters will be delivered in-person at Plant Biology 2026 in Ottawa, Canada.
- Some proposals may be selected for Plant Biology Global, ASPB’s virtual event.
- You can submit up to two (2) abstract proposals.
- The ASPB Program Committee reviews all independent abstracts.
- ASPB members and non-members may submit proposals.
- All in-person speakers and poster presenters must register for Plant Biology 2026 and pay the appropriate registration fee.
Inviting Speakers
Please be sure all proposed speakers are aware they are being included in your plenary proposal before starting the proposal. In the speaker section, once you click ‘Invite (Speaker Name)‘ (see image 1 below), the speaker will receive an email from noreply@gocadmium.com (see image 2 below) instructing them to log in to complete their demographic information.
Note: The speakers will be asked to complete the non-mandatory questions found on the speaker profile page of the submission.
