Please note that your conference account login is not the same as your society login - you will need to create a new account if you have not attended an Evolution conference in the past.
For registering a group (more than one individual) please contact Kerrell Dunsmore at evolution.meetings@gmail.com
For registering a group (more than one individual) please contact Kerrell Dunsmore at evolution.meetings@gmail.com
Registration rates and society membership
Category* |
Undergraduate Student** |
Graduate Student** |
Postdoc |
Faculty/Professional |
Society Members |
$10 |
$10 |
$50 |
$125 |
Non-Members |
$10 |
$50 |
$100 |
$175 |
* Rates refer to your status at the time you register. If you have not yet become a graduate student then you are still an undergraduate, if you have not yet started a postdoc then you are still a graduate student, and if you have not yet obtained a faculty or other professional position then you are still a postdoc.
**The cancellation fee is the same as the undergraduate and graduate student member registration, so no refund can be issued. Please see the Cancellation Policy at the bottom of this page for more information.
**The cancellation fee is the same as the undergraduate and graduate student member registration, so no refund can be issued. Please see the Cancellation Policy at the bottom of this page for more information.
Become a society member!
Members of one or more of the participating societies enjoy a significant savings in registration fees that more than offset the cost of membership. We therefore recommend becoming a member or renewing your membership before beginning your registration.
Check your current membership status here:
American Society of Naturalists
Society for the Study of Evolution (if you cannot login your membership has lapsed)
Society of Systematic Biologists
Join/renew your membership:
American Society of Naturalists
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society of Systematic Biologists
Members of one or more of the participating societies enjoy a significant savings in registration fees that more than offset the cost of membership. We therefore recommend becoming a member or renewing your membership before beginning your registration.
Check your current membership status here:
American Society of Naturalists
Society for the Study of Evolution (if you cannot login your membership has lapsed)
Society of Systematic Biologists
Join/renew your membership:
American Society of Naturalists
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society of Systematic Biologists
Global Participation Program
We are pleased to offer free meeting registration to 200 society members from 152 countries and territories around the world. Applicants must be members of ASN, SSB, or SSE. If you have joined SSE through the Global Membership Assistance Program, you are eligible for free registration. Learn more and apply here.
What does my registration pay for?
Our goal is to provide attendees with a quality conference experience while keeping the cost of registration as low as possible. The structure of registration fees is designed to make it easily affordable for students. To do this, we have to subsidize student registration by charging more for postdocs and professionals. The costs of running the Virtual Evolution conference include:
Every Evolution conference (including this one) is budgeted to break even. We do not make profits from our conferences - if revenue exceeds costs, we use that surplus to help fund future conferences.
Student and postdoc registration rates are subsidized for all student registrants using the Graduate Student and Postdoc Travel Stipend funds.
- A virtual platform that includes live-streamed, scheduled, on-demand talks, networking lounges, and many other features.
- Registration, talk submission, and talk recording modules.
- Storage of 300 hours of recorded content, which will be available for six months after the conference.
- Networking lounges for group meetings and meetings with our sponsors.
- Zoom licenses to provide attendees with quality networking and discussion opportunities.
- Captioning of all recorded and live-streamed talks.
- Training for conduct moderators and a third-party safety officer.
- Credit card payment fees and lawyer fees to review all of the contracts necessary to make the meeting happen.
- Compensation for the staff responsible for organizing the conference including the preparation of web sites for conference information, registration, and talk submission.
Every Evolution conference (including this one) is budgeted to break even. We do not make profits from our conferences - if revenue exceeds costs, we use that surplus to help fund future conferences.
Student and postdoc registration rates are subsidized for all student registrants using the Graduate Student and Postdoc Travel Stipend funds.
Talk submission (All submissions are now closed)
Submit your talk title/keywords/authors here first (abstract is optional).
Instructions for recording/uploading your talk video are here.
You will be able to submit a talk title (and abstract if you wish) only after you have competed your registration. Once you have completed the Attendee Registration process, a link to your 'Profile home' will appear in the registration system. Follow it to sign up for a talk. There is no selection process for faux-live concurrent or the on-demand talks: all talk submissions are accepted UNTIL AVAILABLE SLOTS ARE FILLED or until 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time on April 30 (for Faux-Live talks) and May 15 (for On-Demand talks), whichever is earlier. You can choose to submit your talk for the scheduled faux-live sessions (10 minute limit), or as an on-demand talk (6 minute limit - available to view anytime during the meeting). After the faux-live schedule is full, all submissions will be on-demand.
Instructions on how to record or upload your talk will be available here at a later date. Recorded talks that exceed the 10 minute (faux-live) or 6 minute (on-demand) time limit will be rejected, and a request will be sent to you to record your talk again within the time limit.
When you first register, you will create a login name and password that will allow you to return to the site to modify the information provided and to change your registration options. You can change your talk details (i.e. title, authors, keywords, optional abstract) at any time (i.e. up to and even during the conference), and these changes will be immediately reflected in the online scheduler.
Only title, authors, and keywords are required to submit a talk. Abstracts are optional (unless you are applying for the Mayr or Hamilton award), but if provided your abstract will be available to attendees via the online scheduler. Please consider your keywords carefully as these will be used to organize faux-live talks into sessions, and will be used by other attendees to find your talk.
Faux-live talk recordings will be played automatically during a scheduled session. A moderated question/answer/ discussion session will immediately follow the playing of a set of recorded talks. Please attend the session when your talked is played if at all possible so you can answer questions and discuss/network with other attendees.
Please note that due to the complexity involved in scheduling hundreds of talks, we unfortunately cannot accommodate individual requests to present a faux-live talk on a specific date or at a specific time. Thank you for your understanding.
All talks including symposia and plenaries must be recorded and uploaded by June 1.
Instructions for recording/uploading your talk video are here.
You will be able to submit a talk title (and abstract if you wish) only after you have competed your registration. Once you have completed the Attendee Registration process, a link to your 'Profile home' will appear in the registration system. Follow it to sign up for a talk. There is no selection process for faux-live concurrent or the on-demand talks: all talk submissions are accepted UNTIL AVAILABLE SLOTS ARE FILLED or until 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time on April 30 (for Faux-Live talks) and May 15 (for On-Demand talks), whichever is earlier. You can choose to submit your talk for the scheduled faux-live sessions (10 minute limit), or as an on-demand talk (6 minute limit - available to view anytime during the meeting). After the faux-live schedule is full, all submissions will be on-demand.
Instructions on how to record or upload your talk will be available here at a later date. Recorded talks that exceed the 10 minute (faux-live) or 6 minute (on-demand) time limit will be rejected, and a request will be sent to you to record your talk again within the time limit.
When you first register, you will create a login name and password that will allow you to return to the site to modify the information provided and to change your registration options. You can change your talk details (i.e. title, authors, keywords, optional abstract) at any time (i.e. up to and even during the conference), and these changes will be immediately reflected in the online scheduler.
Only title, authors, and keywords are required to submit a talk. Abstracts are optional (unless you are applying for the Mayr or Hamilton award), but if provided your abstract will be available to attendees via the online scheduler. Please consider your keywords carefully as these will be used to organize faux-live talks into sessions, and will be used by other attendees to find your talk.
Faux-live talk recordings will be played automatically during a scheduled session. A moderated question/answer/ discussion session will immediately follow the playing of a set of recorded talks. Please attend the session when your talked is played if at all possible so you can answer questions and discuss/network with other attendees.
Please note that due to the complexity involved in scheduling hundreds of talks, we unfortunately cannot accommodate individual requests to present a faux-live talk on a specific date or at a specific time. Thank you for your understanding.
All talks including symposia and plenaries must be recorded and uploaded by June 1.
Cancellation policy
Please contact evolution.meetings@gmail.com to request a refund. Important dates and information: For cancellations received prior to June 1, 2021, a $10 administration fee will apply to cover costs that we have to pay for each person registering. Registration is non-refundable after June 1. The $10 student member registration is non-refundable because it is the same as the administrative costs. If you purchased a student registration and can no longer attend, please contact Kerrell Dunsmore at evolution.meetings@gmail.com.