Conferences

Where ASBS members come together to connect and reflect

Annual General Meetings and Special General Meetings

Each year ASBS aims to connect and inspire our membership through a conference, often held in conjunction with an Annual General Meeting (AGM). These conferences are hosted either online or in person at botanic gardens, herbaria, and universities across major cities and large regional centres in Australasia. ASBS may also co-host a joint meeting with other societies such as the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network or the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists.

The conference is a wonderful opportunity for our members to come together to expand professional networks, establish collaborations, and share our botanical passions!

Members volunteer their time and skills to organise and host the conference. These meetings are a highlight of the ASBS calendar and involve multiple days of members sharing their research through oral presentations and poster sessions. In addition, field trips, workshops, tours, special keynote lectures, conference dinners, and the AGM are frequently part of the conference programme.

Forthcoming Conference

2024 Conference

Annual conference support

Conferences can be daunting when you don’t know many people or you face extra physical or mental health challenges. We aim to try and help all delegates have an enjoyable conference experience by seeking to ensure the following:

Past Conferences

  • Conference Title: Taxonomy for Plant Conservation
  • Location: Wellington, New Zealand
  • Associated groups and meetings: New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 41
  • ASBS Newsletter 181: 10–27
  • Burbidge lecture: Barry Conn
  • Conference Title: Systematics 2017: Integrating Systematics for Conservation and Ecology Conference proceedings available as a supplement to the journal Swainsona
  • Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: Society of Australian Systematic Biologists
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 39
  • ASBS Newsletter 173: 2–18
  • Burbidge lecture: P.J. Brownsey
  • Conference Title: Systematic botany—a view from the Centre Conference proceedings available as a supplement to the journal Swainsona
  • Location: Alice Springs, NT, Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 38
  • ASBS Newsletter 168–9: 2–19
  • Burbidge lecture: A.E. Orchard
  • Conference Title: Systematics Without Borders
  • Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: Invertebrate Biodiversity & Conservation and the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 35
  • ASBS Newsletter 157: 2–3
  • Burbidge lecture: P.J. Garnock-Jones
  • Conference Title: ASBS Conference
  • Location: Melbourne, Vic, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: International Botanical Congress (IBC)
  • Annual General Meeting Number: No associated AGM
  • Burbidge lecture: M.D. Crisp
  • Conference Title: Systematic botany across the ditch: links between Australia and New Zealand
  • Location: Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand
  • Associated groups and meetings: ASBS/New Zealand Plant Radiation Network
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 32
  • ASBS Newsletter: 144: 2–15
  • Conference Title: Systematic botany: from science to society
  • Location: Armidale, NSW, Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 31
  • ASBS Newsletter: 141: 3–13
  • Conference Title: Plant Diversity in the Tropics
  • Location: Cairns, Qld, Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: no associated AGM
  • Conference Title: Plant Systematics in Australia – Where is it Going?
  • Location: Brisbane, Qld, Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: no associated AGM
  • Conference Title: Handbook on Families of Australian Vascular Plants
  • Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 26
  • ASBS Newsletter 119: 1
  • Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: ASBS/Australian Institute of Biology conference: “Evolution of the Australian Biota”
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 24
  • ASBS Newsletter 113: 3–11
  • Conference Title: Roderick Page workshop on Historical Associations
  • Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 22
  • ASBS Newsletter 104: 1–12
  • Conference Title: Dampier 300
  • Location: Perth, WA, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: Society of Australian Systematic Biologists
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 21
  • ASBS Newsletter 101: 3–14
  • Burbidge lecture: A.A. Burbidge
  • Conference Title: Systematics: advancing knowledge and conservation of Australia’s biodiversity
  • Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: Society of Australian Systematic Biologists (SASB)
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 19
  • ASBS Newsletter 93: 4–18
  • Conference Title: Workshop: Analysis of cladistic data: morphological and molecular.
  • Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 17
  • ASBS Newsletter 85: 24–29
  • Conference Title: Systematics, Evolution and Conservation of the Western Australian Biota
  • Location: Perth, WA, Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: no associated AGM
  • Conference Title: Southern Temperate ecosystems – origin and diversification
  • Location: Hobart, Tas, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: Southern Connections, Ecological Society of Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 15
  • ASBS Newsletter 74: 5–9
  • Burbidge lecture: E. Truswell
  • Conference Title: Biogeography and Phylogenetics of Pacific Flora
  • Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
  • Associated groups and meetings: Botanical Society of America
  • Annual General Meeting Number: no associated AGM
  • Conference Title: Systematic and Ecological relationships of South Pacific floras
  • Location: Auckland, New Zealand
  • Associated groups and meetings: New Zealand Botanical Society
  • Annual General Meeting Number: no associated AGM
  • Conference Title: Indo Pacific Biogeography; at the crossroads
  • Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: post Hennig conference
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 13
  • ASBS Newsletter 65: 13–25
  • Burbidge lecture: R. Carolin
  • Conference Title: Evolution & systematics of Australian tropical flora
  • Location: Brisbane, Qld, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: Ecological Society of Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 10
  • ASBS Newsletter 48: 15–20
  • Burbidge lecture: D.E. Symon
  • Conference Title: The systematic status of large flowering plant genera
  • Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia
  • Annual General Meeting Number: no associated AGM
  • Conference Title: Origin & evolution of Australasian Alpine Biota
  • Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: APES
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 9
  • ASBS Newsletter 42: 1–6
  • Burbidge lecture: H.E. Connor
  • Conference Title: Cladistics, Systematics and Phylogeny
  • Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: ANZAAS
  • Annual General Meeting Number: no associated AGM
  • Conference Title: Systematics & Biogeography of Myrtaceae
  • Location: Perth, WA, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: ANZAAS
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 8
  • ASBS Newsletter 35: 9–20
  • Burbidge lecture: B.J. Grieve
  • Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: International Botanical Congress
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 7
  • ASBS Newsletter 28: 3–8
  • Conference Title: Evolution of the flora and fauna of arid Australia
  • Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: Ecological Society of Australia, Australian Entomological Society and Australian Society of Herpetologists
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 6
  • ASBS Newsletter 23: 2–10
  • Burbidge lecture: H.T. Clifford
  • Conference Title: The cytogenetic stimulus to taxonomy
  • Location: Melbourne, Vic, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: ANZAAS
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 4
  • ASBS Newsletter 12: 2–7
  • Conference Title: Plant Biogeography
  • Location: Hobart, Tas, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: ANZAAS
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 3
  • ASBS Newsletter 8: 9–20
  • Conference Title: Modern methods in Plant Taxonomy
  • Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: ANZAAS
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 2
  • ASBS Newsletter 4: 2–7
  • Location: Perth, WA, Australia
  • Associated groups and meetings: ANZAAS
  • Annual General Meeting Number: 1
  • ASBS Newsletter 1: 4–6
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