CCP-EM workshops and courses
CCP-EM organises, co-organises and attend many in-person training courses each year. Since 2013 we have supported 50+ workshops and taught 1600+ researchers at institutes all over the world.
These courses provide intensive training in software and theory for participants. We aim for a diverse cohort of delegates from different institutions who can disseminate their learning in their home labs.
Please subscribe to our mailing list where these courses are announced or contact ccpem@stfc.ac.uk if you are interested in hosting a workshop.
Upcoming events
CCP4/CCP-EM School Santiago, Chile: Structural Biology at the Foot of the Andes, 10-20 November 2025
This intensive workshop combines state-of-the-art lectures and hands-on tutorials led primarily by expert members of the CCP4 and CCP-EM communities, alongside Latin American researchers currently working in protein crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy. Participants will gain deep insight into the theory and extensive experience in data processing for these techniques, offering a unique opportunity to master essential tools and methods in macromolecular structure determination.
Doppio Roadshow, University of Manchester, 25 November 2025
The CCP-EM team will give an overview of the CCP-EM Doppio software suite and provide tutorials on single particle analysis and atomic model building using the STFC Ada cloud platform.
9th Icknield Model Building Workshop, Harwell Campus, 13-17 October 2025
The Icknield model building workshop will run again in 2025. This 5-day course is largely aimed at structural biologists with EM maps suitable for modelling building and refinement. The course will be held at the RAL / Diamond campus, Harwell, UK, site of the eBIC national facility. Registration fee is £386.00 and accommodation at The Bear Hotel, Wantage, can be booked separately as part of the registration process at £86.50 per night. Delegates are asked to meet their own travel costs.
Past training courses & events
EMBO image processing for cryo-electron microscopy, Birkbeck, September 2025
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 cryoEM. 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 cryoEM for structural analysis. See site for more details.
Doppio roadshow at Imperial College London, September 2025
Overview and tutorials for SPA and model building Doppio workflows.
Shanghai School in macromolecular crystallography and cryo electron microscopy, September 2025
:From data collection to structure refinement and beyond. CCP-EM provided lecture and tutorials for SPA.
CCP4-BCA summer school in York, August 2025
CCP4 Structural Biology Summer School on macromolecular crystallography (MX), electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM), and associated techniques. The school aims to bring together early-career scientists from the UK, Europe and beyond and train them in the latest advances in structural biology, with a primary focus on MX and cryo-EM.
Current and future integrative structural biology, Padua, Italy, July 2025
UK EM facilities workshop, University of Warwick, June 2025
A two day meeting in Warwick for all UK life science cryoEM facility staff to share best practice, challenges and solutions.
Conceptual course in macromolecular structure determination (MX and Cryo-EM), Thailand, July 2025
Faculty of Science, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, is organizing a non-degree course on Conceptual Course in Macromolecular Structure Determination using Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography (MX) and Cryo-EM techniques from June 9 to July 9, 2025. CCP-EM provided tutorials and lectures on SPA and atomic model building.
Czech Society for structural biology: Structural analysis of biomolecules utilizing CCP4 and CCP-EM, 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.
Web for the win! – CERN inverted school of computing, 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.
Doppio roadshow at the Francis Crick Institute, February, 2025
Overview and tutorials for SPA and model building Doppio workflows.
2024
CCP-EM & eBIC Industrial Workshop. 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. January, Diamond Light Source, UK
CCP-EM EMBL Pipeliner & Doppio Workshop. February, EMBL/Virtual, Germany
CCP-EM Doppio Workshop at Leeds. September, University of Leeds, UK.
8th Icknield Model Building Workshop. 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. October, RAL/DLS, UK
South-East Asian Crystallographic Overview And Systematic Training (SEA COAST). King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
NEMI Dutch Cryo-EM School. Tutorials for SPA and model building provide by CCP-EM core team with Arjen Jakobi (TU Delft). June, Leiden and Delft, Netherlands
CCP4/APS School in Macromolecular Crystallography: From data collection to structure refinement and beyond. Included CCP-EM tutorial for SPA. October, Advanced Photon Source, Chicago, USA
EMBO Integrative structural biology: solving molecular puzzles EMBL Hamburg. November, EMBL Hamburg, Germany.
2023
CCP-EM Developers Meeting. January, The Cosener’s House, Abingdon, UK
IUCr CCP-EM Satellite Meeting. Lectures and tutorials on cryoEM data processing. September, Melbourne, Australia
7th Icknield Model Building Workshop. October, RAL/DLS, UK
EMBO Image processing for cryo-electron microscopy, CCP-EM contributed tutorials and sponsorship. September, Birkbeck, UK
SPring-8 CCP-EM and CCP4 Workshop, including tutorials on single particle analysis, model building with ModelAngelo and model refinement. Super Photon ring-8, Japan
2022
CCP-EM Tomography Developers Workshop & Hackathon. March, The Cosener’s House, Abingdon, UK
Biomolecular Dynamics and Cryo-EM. Two day discussion meeting with CCPBioSim to bring the cryo and biomolecular simulation communities together to share ideas. April, University of Leeds, UK
Regensburg CryoEM Methods Course. September, University of Regensburg, Germany
6th Icknield Model Building Workshop. October, RAL/DLS, UK
EMBO Cryo electron microscopy and 3D image processing. December, Prune, India
NEMI Dutch Cryo-EM School. Tutorials for SPA and model building provide by CCP-EM core team with Arjen Jakobi (TU Delft). June, Leiden and Delft, Netherlands
ECM CCP-EM and CCP4 Satellite Meeting. Lectures and tutorials on cryoEM data processing. August, SOLEIL Synchrotron, France
EMBO Integrative Structural Biology. November, EMBL Hamburg, Germany
2021
Excalibur BASE A2 Imaging Scales for Life Sciences. One day workshop to identify where ML can be used to aid imaging and simulation across biological time and length scales, and to scope future opportunities and define current limiting factors. Virtual, UK
Nvidia GPU Acceleration. Training workshop for CCP-EM collaborators with lectures and tutorials from Nvidia to demonstrate Python GPU functionality. March, Virtual, UK
IUCr Satellite Meeting, Prague/Virtual, Czechia
2020
BGU CCP-EM & CCP4 CryoEM Course. March, BGU, Israel
SLAC CCP-EM Workshop. 4 day virtual workshop covering atomic model building process in the CCP-EM software suite. November, SLAC/Virtual, US
2019
Relion Single Particle Analysis Workshop at Diamond Light Source with Rafa Fernandez-Leiro (Spanish National Cancer Centre). December, DLS, UK
5th Icknield Model Building Workshop. April, RAL/DLS, UK
EMBO Practical Integrative Structural Biology. CCP-EM group contributed tutorials and lectures. November, EMBL Hamburg, Germany
Madrid Model Building & Refinement Workshop. Two workshop covering the fundementals of atomic model building hosted by Rafa Fernandez-Leiro. March, Spanish National Cancer Centre, Spain.
EMBO Image processing for cryo-electron microscopy, CCP-EM contributed tutorials and sponsorship. September, Birkbeck, UK
Workshop on Machine Learning Applications in Electron Cryo-Microscopy and Crystallography. September, Research Complex at Harwell, UK
2018
Relion Single Particle Analysis Workshop for GW4 Cryo-EM facility with Rafa Fernandez-Leiro (MRC-LMB). May, University of Bristol, UK
4th Icknield Model Building Workshop. April, RAL/DLS, UK
emClarity Workshop. One day training to use the emClarity software for subtomogram averaging with Ben Himes (University of Pittsburgh). April, DLS/RAL, UK
CCPN Annual Conference. CCP-EM session on electron microscopy and combining NMR and cryoEM data. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
2017
3rd Icknield Model Building Workshop. April, RAL/DLS, UK
Combining EM and MD Workshop to investigate the crossover between emerging EM and MD methods. July, University of Leeds
Dynamo Workshop. Three day training to use the Dynamo software for cryoET data processing led by Daniel Castano-Diez. November, DLS/RAL, UK
EMBO Image processing for cryo-electron microscopy, CCP-EM contributed tutorials and sponsorship. September, Birkbeck, UK
2016
2nd Icknield Model Building Workshop. March. March, RAL/DLS, UK
Instruct: From 2D images to 3D structures: A practical course on Electron Microscopy Single Particle Analysis. May, CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
CCP-EM Developers Meeting. October, The Cosener’s House, Abingdon, UK
One day RELION Workshop led by its developer Sjors Scheres and hosted by CCP-EM and the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory (University of Leeds, UK). September, Leeds, UK
Advanced Data Collection for High Resolution cryoEM: How to make the most of your National Facility Visit support by the Biochemical Society. September, DLS, UK
2015
Dynamo Workshop. Three day training to use the Dynamo software on the Harwell campus. The tutors were Daniel Castano-Diez, Misha Kudryashev, Sai Li and Juha Huiskonen. October, RAL, UK
2014
Relion Single Particle Analysis Workshop round 1 at Diamond Light Source with Sjors Scheres (MRC-LMB), with help from Felix Weis (MRC-LMB) and the local CCP-EM team. October, DLS, UK
1st Icknied Model Building Workshop. Supported by Instruct as the “Computational tools for combining atomic and volume data” this covered Chimera, DockEM, ShapEM, FlexEM, Refmac, Coot, SMaSB/PDBeShape, and tools from the EM Data Bank and became known as the Icknield modelling course. April, DLS, UK
Relion Single Particle Analysis Workshop round 2 at Diamond Light Source with Sjors Scheres (MRC-LMB), with help from Felix Weis (MRC-LMB) and the local CCP-EM team. December, DLS, UK