CCP4 Study Weekend 2025:

Using software, AI and other methods to advance crystallographic models

EMCC, Nottingham, UK & Virtual

7th - 9th January 2025

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The CCP4 Study Weekend is an annual meeting organised by the Collaborative Computational Project Number 4 (CCP4), a UK-based initiative that supports macromolecular crystallography. The event focuses on providing updates on current methods and software developments in the field of structural biology, and brings together a broad spectrum of participants, including methods developers, senior researchers, and students. 

This year’s CCP4 Study Weekend will take place in Nottingham (UK), January 7-9, 2025. The theme of the meeting is “Using software, AI and other methods to advance macromolecular models.” It will be held as a hybrid event, enabling people to choose whether to attend in-person or virtually. 

Highlights of this meeting include a Keynote Presentation, a discussion panel with the topic “Skill Mismatch: Are We Training Structural Biologists for Jobs That Won’t Exist?”, a poster session, presentations about “What’s New in CCP4?“, and “Lunchtime Bytes” tutorials, as well as the Diamond MX User Meeting. Lectures will focus on the presentation and discussion of a variety of methods and techniques developed and used by the leaders in the field (see programme for more details). 

***2025 will see the return of the ceilidh band “Knitter’s Jig” after the conference dinner on January 8th******** 

Programme 

Day 1 – January 7th

Diamond MX User Meeting from 11am 

Session 1: 

  • Keynote talk 
  • Discussion panel 
  • Poster session 
  • Networking event (Board Game café) 

Day 2 – January 8th

  • Session 2: Demystifying the black box – new features and old tricks to use software efficiently. 
  • Session 3: Using prior knowledge to improve and validate models. 
  • Session 4: AI in structural biology I: Predicted models and how to use them. 
  • Conference dinner followed by Ceilidh by “Knitter’s Jig” and Board Game café  

Day 3 – January 9th

  • Session 5: AI in structural biology II: Other applications. 
  • Session 6: Dynamics. 
  • Session 7: More ways to characterize your sample. 

Scientific Organisers: 

  • Elke De Zitter (Institut de Biologie Structurale, FRANCE) 
  • Deborah Harrus (EMBL-EBI, UK)  
  • Dorothee Liebschner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) 

Key Dates

  • Registration will open in September 2024
  • Travel Bursary applications close 31 October 2024
  • Early bird registration ends 11 November 2024
  • In-person registration closes 6 December 2024 (or earlier if places sell out)
  • Hybrid Registration closes 9 January 2025

Key Timings

  • Diamond user meeting will start at
    11:00 on 7th January 2025
  • CCP4 study weekend 2025 will start at
    17:30 on 7th January 2025
  • The event will finish
    at 16:30 on 9th January 2025