CCP-EM Workshops and Courses
CCP-EM organises or co-organises several in-person training courses each year and since 2013 we have led or co-led over 40 workshops and taught over 1300 researchers at institutes all over the world.
These course provide intensive training in software and theory for a limited number of participants. We typically select a diverse cohort of students from different institutions, who can then disseminate their learning in their home labs. These courses will be announced/advertised on our mailing list.
Upcoming Events
UK EM facilities meeting, Warwick 2-3 June 2025
2 day meeting in Warwick for all UK life science cryoEM facility staff to share best practice, challenges and solutions.
Please contact ccpemevents@stfc.ac.uk if interested in attending.
For details please see schedule.
Current and future integrative structural biology, Padua, Italy, 7-11 July 2025
India model building workshop, Bangalore, India, 28 July – 2 August 2025
(in-person)
Organised by CCP-EM, National Centre for Biological Sciences and Indian Institute of Science. See programme.
EMBO Image processing for cryo-electron microscopy, Birkbeck, UK, 9-16th September 2025
(in-person)
The aim of this EMBO Practical Course is to teach the basic principles and practical aspects of image processing to structural and molecular biologists wishing to determine macromolecular structures by cryo EM. The course will concentrate on processing of high-resolution image data, for both single particle images and tomograms, and will be aimed at advanced PhD students and postdocs who use cryo EM for structural analysis. See site for more details.
Icknield 2025, Harwell Campus, 13-17 October 2025
(in-person)
The Icknield model building workshop will run again in 2025. Details TBC.
Past training courses and events
Web For The Win! – CERN inverted school of computing, 24-27 March 2025
A crash course in web application development. This lecture goes over web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JS), tooling, common UI libraries and frameworks, the fundamentals of React development and testing, tldr user experience design, APIs, and highlights modern features like web assembly and WebGL which allows for powerful web apps like Moorhen (Coot) and Mol* to exist. Course content and recorded lecture available here.
Czech Society for Structural Biology: Structural analysis of biomolecules utilizing CCP4 and CCP-EM, 18-20 March 2025
The course is intended mainly (but not only) for MSc and PhD students who are interested in the field of structural biology. They will receive a basic theoretical introduction into crystallography, Cryo-EM and SAXS and then will be learn how to master the software tools of CCP4 and CCP-EM packages (and more), see programme.
EMBO Integrative structural biology: solving molecular puzzles, EMBL Hamburg, 17 – 24 Nov 2024
Integrative structural biology has become a key strategy for determining the structure of biological macromolecules and their complexes. This method entails characterising the 3D structure through an array of complementary techniques, subsequently combining the data to form a consensus model using computational methodologies. Further details details available here.
Icknield workshop, 4-8 Nov 2024
This course is aimed at structural biologists with high resolution EM maps suitable for modelling, building and refinement. Ample contact time is included to work on data in detail alongside traditional lectures and tutorials. Course contents available here.
Dutch cryoEM school, Leiden/Delft, 3-8 June 2024
Including lectures and tutorials from CCP-EM, see programme.
CCP-EM EMBL virtual workshop 16 Feb 2024
Introduction to CCP-EM Pipeliner and Doppio, and model building in CCP-EM. Supported by the STFC DAaaS Training platform.
CCP-EM Doppio/Pipeliner workshop, DLS, 17-18 Jan 2024
Aimed at industry and facility managers, with a focus on setting up pipeliner/Doppio in a multi-user environment and using its features to streamline and automate workflows.
CCP-EM Workshop, Spring 8, Nov 2023
Including tutorials on single particle analysis, model building with ModelAngelo and model refinement.
CCP-EM Icknield Model Workshop, 9–12 Oct 2023
Comprehensive course for 22 delegates, held on the Harwell campus. Talks and tutorials are available here.
EMBO Practical Course, Image processing for cryoEM, Birkbeck, 5–12 Sept 2023
Details here.
EMBO Practical Course, Image processing for cryoEM, 6–16 Sept 2021 (Virtual)
The popular biannual course.
Combining EM and MD Workshop Leeds 13-14 July 2017
The workshop aimed at investigating the crossover between emerging EM and MD methods.
CCP-EM Icknield Model Building Workship 5-7 April 2017
See more recent Icknield workshops.
Subtomogram averaging with Dynamo
CCP-EM hosted a 3-day workshop on the Dynamo software, 14th – 16th Dec 2015 on the Harwell campus, UK. The tutors were Daniel Castano-Diez, Misha Kudryashev, Sai Li and Juha Huiskonen.
Relion training course
A one day RELION workshop led by its developer Sjors Scheres and hosted by CCP-EM and the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory (University of Leeds, UK) on 19th September 2016.
Advanced Data Collection for High Resolution cryoEM: How to make the most of your National Facility Visit, eBIC, 6 September 2016
Supported by the Biochemical Society.
1st Icknield Workshop on Model Building, Harwell campus, 2-4 March 2016
See more recent Icknield workshops.
Computational tools for combining atomic and volume data, Apr 2015.
This Instruct/CCPEM/CCP4 course covered tools including Chimera, DockEM, ShapEM, FlexEM, Refmac, Coot, SMaSB/PDBeShape, and tools from the EM Data Bank.
Relion training
The first one-day training course on Relion was practical course on image processing for cryo-electron microscopy held at Diamond Light Source on Thursday 16th October 2014. It was led by Sjors Scheres (MRC-LMB), with help from Felix Weis (MRC-LMB) and the local CCP-EM team. A repeat of this course was held on 8th December 2014.