Conference registration is now open. Abstract deadline is February 13, 2026. Attendance only deadline March 9, 2026. Register now
This year's Animal Behavior Conference will be held on March 27-28, 2026.
Animal Behavior Conference
The Animal Behavior Conference will be in person at the Monroe Convention Center, 302 S. College Ave, Bloomington, IN 47403.
We hope to see you this year!
CISAB sponsors an annual Animal Behavior Conference each spring. The conference has grown into a regional meeting attended by more than 200 students and scientists from undergraduates to senior faculty members from 10 states and 30 institutions. The conference offers an outstanding opportunity for animal behaviorists to meet and present their latest research.
The conference typically consists of ~20 talks across multiple sessions and an evening poster session. It culminates with a plenary lecture by a highly accomplished researcher in the field of animal behavior.
- Animal Behavior Conference Previous Plenary Lecturers
- Carl D. Hopkins, Cornell University
- Marlene Zuk, UC Riverside
- Lauren V. Riters , University of Wisconsin (ABC '06)
- Michael J. Ryan, University of Texas at Austin (ABC '07)
- Irving Zucker, UC Berkeley (ABC '08)
- Darcy Kelley, Columbia University (ABC '09)
- Roy Caldwell, UC Berkeley (ABC '10)
- Sergio M. Pellis, University of Lethbridge (ABC '11)
- John C. Wingfield, UC Davis (ABC '12)
- Frances Champagne, Columbia University (ABC '13)
- Mark Blumberg, University of Iowa (ABC '14)
- David Crews, University of Texas at Austin (ABC '15)
- Allison S. Fleming, University of Toronto, Mississauga (ABC '16)
- Elizabeth Adkins-Regan, Cornell University (ABC '17)
- Frans B.M. de Waal, Emory University (ABC '18)
- Hans Hofmann, The University of Texas at Austin (ABC '19)
- COVID (no ABC '20)
- Karen L. Bales, The University of California, Davis (ABC '21)
- Susan Alberts, Duke University (ABC '22)
- Vanessa Ezenwa, Yale University (ABC '23)
- Maydianne Andrade, University of Toronto Scarborough (ABC '24)
- Alison Bell, Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (ABC '25)
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