93rd Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California (2024)

What is the COVID policy?

Vaccination and up-to-date boosters will be required to attend AABA 2024. Please reach out to AABA President Leslea Hlusko to discuss criteria for exceptions or concerns you have about this policy. Read the full policy here.

How will online-only presentations work?

Both in-person and …

Four steps to submit an abstract:

• STEP 1: Please read the following instructions on how to prepare your abstract before starting the submission process.
• STEP 2: Renew your membership or apply to join the AABA through this link. Renewing/joining ensures that you will receive the member conference registration rate. …

Since July 2023, hotel workers in Los Angeles have staged intermittent strikes over low wages and lack of affordable housing near their workplaces. Several LA-area hotels have not yet reached new contract agreements with hotel workers; the JW Marriott at LA Live (the location of the 2024 American Association of …

AABA will require COVID-19 vaccination and strongly recommends masking in meeting rooms and poster sessions in Los Angeles. Policies may be revised to be more strict if that is necessary to follow CDC and State of California guidance. We are closely monitoring news, science, and CDC guidance related to COVID …

93rd Annual AABA, Los Angeles: March 20-23, 2024

Upcoming Due Dates

November 15, 2023:

• Deadline for workshop proposals

January 5, 2024:

• Deadline for Pollitzer Award submissions

January 15, 2024:

• Deadline for Cobb Professional Development Award submissions

February 1, 2024:

• Deadline for submissions for the Undergraduate Research Symposium
  
  

Past deadlines

October …

As in years past, AABA is dedicated to providing free childcare for meeting attendees. Childcare is open to any registered participant for the AABA 2024 Los Angeles program. You do not need to be presenting in order to use this service.

Childcare at the 2024 meeting in Los Angeles will …

The AABA 2024 annual conference in Los Angeles will hold a brief hooding ceremony for all MA and PhD graduates who were unable to walk at their graduations and be hooded by their advisors. While the participants will most likely be those who could not attend graduation due to Covid, …

AABA Organized Tours

You can sign up for these at the time of meeting registration. Note that there is no onsite registration for the tours.

• Tour of Bone Clones Facility (Wednesday, March 20, 2024, bus leaves at 12:00 PM and returns ~4 PM, Preregistration $35, limited to 30 people)

Bone …

Hotel Room Reservation

Click here for general information about the hotel.

AABA has secured discounted room rates for conference attendees. The only way to book a room at the hotel at the AABA rate is to use the links below. Please note that there is a special rate for students …

The portal for submission of workshop applications is open.

To submit your proposal, please follow these steps :

1. Read the instructions below.
2. Renew your AABA membership for 2024.  You may renew your membership or join the AABA here.
3. Register for the conference. If you are not already registered, you may …

The deadline for Meetings Registration at the pre-registration rate is February 18, 2024. Register for the meetings here.

The Registration fees for the 2024 conference are:

*Virtual conference includes access to all invited symposia during the in person meetings, the annual business meeting, and virtual content following the meetings …

The deadline for submitting Invited Symposium proposals is August 15, 2023.

Be sure to read the instructions below. Have all materials ready to enter prior to starting the submission process as you cannot save a draft and return to it later.

Overview

AABA hosts two types of research sessions at …