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Dear Botanical Colleagues and Friends,
Due to extensive renovations at the Tucson meeting location, we had to quickly find a new Botany 2025 meeting site. We have conducted a nationwide search and recently completed our site negotiations. Come join your colleagues in Palm Springs, California, from July 25-31 for Botany 2025!
We sought bids and heard back from over 20 locations. Palm Springs was eager to host us and is able to accommodate the time frame, space, and needs of our community. We will be meeting at the Palm Springs Convention Center and the connected Renaissance Hotel. Our theme for the conference will remain “Botany without Barriers.” In January, we will announce the selected Symposia and Colloquia and reopen the submission site for Workshops.
In Palm Springs, you can look forward to:
- Meeting space all on one level and walkable indoors
- An accessible, friendly, and safe downtown location
- Complimentary hotel shuttle from the airport
- Affordable lodging rates, and rooms that can be shared for savings ($169/nt for attendees and $119/nt for students at the Renaissance Hotel)
- Potential morning field trips to places like Joshua Tree National Park, San Jacinto Mountains, Thousand Palms Oasis Preserve, California Botanic Garden, a date farm, local UC system Herbaria and more
- Nursing mother’s room, a quiet room, and designated gender-neutral bathrooms
- Free street parking around the convention center and discounted hotel parking in the hotel lot
We are keenly aware that we need to get our conference back to a more balanced rotation and visit the eastern half of the United States. It is exceedingly challenging to find a location on the East Coast with hotel rates that we can afford. (Recent bids have proposed rates around $229 and $249/night, which are not feasible for our large student population.) We will be seeking proposals for 2027 and 2028 meeting locations in the new year, focusing on finding the best options in regions of the country where we have not been recently.
Thank you for your patience during our search and contract negotiations. We are very pleased with the outcome and our return to California, where we have not held a Botany conference since 2006.
If you have any questions about conference logistics, please contact Lori Strong, Meetings Manager. For scientific program questions, please contact Melanie Link-Perez, Conference Program Manager.
We look forward to communicating with you again in the new year! For now, mark your calendar and plan to join us in Palm Springs.
Melanie Link-Pérez
Botany 2025 Program Director
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