CCP4 Study Weekend 2027:

This year the CCP4 Study Weekend will be held as a hybrid event from the 6th – 8th January, enabling people to choose whether to attend in-person or virtually. 

The event will be run over 3 days. Day 1 will encompass the Diamond MX User Meeting starting at 11am.  The main Study Weekend will then begin with a Keynote talk followed by a discussion panel engaging with the audience on the topic “What are the major challenges and opportunities for the future of time-resolved crystallography”.   

The subsequent 2 days will follow the usual format with 3 sessions each day. Old favourites like “What’s New in CCP4?” and “Lunchtime Bytes” will also appear each day (see programme for more details). 

A poster session will also be taking place this year on the evening of the first day allowing students to present their research to the wider crystallographic community. 

***2027 will also see the return of the last year’s ceilidh band “Knitter’s Jig” after the conference dinner on day 2 for all those who want to join in. See the Social Programme here******** 

RETURNING THIS YEAR – BURSARIES FOR active retired / Emeritus scientists to attend the in-person event. SEE FEES PAGE FOR MORE DETAILS 

In keeping with previous CCP4 meetings, the lectures will focus on the presentation and discussion of a variety of methods and techniques developed and used by the leaders in the field. 

This year, the topic for the Study Weekend is “Structural Biology on the move“.  

The aim of this year’s meeting is to highlight innovative methods and workflows for ligand analysis and drug discovery, from high-throughput and structural approaches to advanced computation and AI. 

Sessions will cover: 

Day 1 

• Diamond MX User Meeting from 11am 
• Session 1: 
  • Keynote talk 
  • Panel Discussion – What are the major challenges and opportunities for the future of time-resolved crystallography  
  • Networking event including poster session  

Day 2 

• Session 2: Facilities for time-resolved crystallography. 
• Session 3: Following metalloproteins, spectroscopy. 
• Session 4: Data reduction the age of serial crystallography. 

Conference dinner followed by Ceilidh by “Knitter’s Jig”, Board Game café and Dance-mat Video Games. 

Day 3 

• Session 5: Challenges in Refinement – ensembles, partial states. 
• Session 6: Emerging techniques for time-resolved experiments. 
• Session 7: Complementary computational techniques. 

Scientific Organisers: 

• Pierre Aller (Diamond Light Source, UK) 
• Martin Maly (UKRI-MRC LMB, UK)  
• Briony Yorke (University of Leeds, UK)