Icknield Workshop 2025

Oct 13. till Oct 18.

Icknield Workshop 2025

The teams at CCP-EM and Diamond are pleased to announce the 2025 Icknield Workshop. This course is largely aimed at structural biologists (PhDs, Post-docs, research staff or PI) with EM maps suitable for modelling building and refinement. This course will cover all aspects of modelling building including: map optimisation, automated model building, model fitting, medium resolution refinement, high resolution refinement, interactive refinement, validation and deposition.

Date
13/10/20252025-10-13 - 18/10/20252025-10-18
Location
Diamond Light Source, UK
Link
Register Here

Overview

We are happy to announce the 2025 CCP-EM/Diamond Icknield Workshop to be held on Monday 13th - Friday 17th October 2025. This five-day course is largely aimed at structural biologists with EM maps suitable for modelling building and refinement.  This course will host some of the leading software developers and provide ample contact time to allow delegates to discuss their data in detail alongside traditional lectures and tutorials.  This is a comprehensive course for EM model building covering advanced use of LocScale, ModelAngelo, Buccaneer, findMySequence-checkMySequence, EM_placement, Coot/Moorhen, TEMPy-REFF, ISOLDE, Refmac-Servalcat, Privateer, new validation tools and AlphaFold-DB and EMDB/PDBe updates. It will cover all aspects of modelling building including: map optimisation, automated model building, model fitting, medium resolution refinement, high resolution refinement, interactive refinement, validation and deposition.

 

Confirmed Tutors and Topics

 

  • Tom Burnley (CCP-EM) : CCP-EM Doppio
  • Arjen Jakobi (TU Delft) : LocScale
  • Sjors Scheres (MRC-LMB) : Relion5 and ModelAngelo
  • Randy Read (University of Cambridge) : EM-placement 
  • Grzegorz Chojnowski (EMBL) : FindMySequence/CheckMySequence
  • Maya Topf, Tom Mulvaney and Aaron Sweeney (CSSB Hamburg) : TEMPy-REFF, Chem-EM
  • Lucrezia Catapano (MRC-LMB), Paul Bond (University of York) and George Coldstream (CCP-EM): Coot / Moorhen
  • Soon Wen Hoh and Paul Bond (University of York) : Buccaneer/ModelCraft
  • Rob Nicholls (CCP4/CCP-EM), Martin Malý (MRC-LMB) and Rangana Warshamanage (CCP-EM) : Refmac/Servalcat
  • Tristan Croll (AltosLabs) : ISOLDE
  • TBC (University of York) : Privateer
  • Jennifer Fleming (PDBe, EBI) : AlphaFold-DB and 3D-Beacons
  • Agnel Joseph (CCP-EM) : Model validation
  • Kyle Morris (EMDB, EBI) : EMDB deposition and validation

Applications

The course will be held at Diamond on the RAL campus in Harwell UK, site of the eBIC national facility.  The registration fee is £386.00. Accommodation at The Bear Hotel in 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.


The course is limited to 20 in-person delegates which will be selected from all applicants.  A maximum of 40 applicants can register their interest through the registration form.

CCP-EM can offer a limited number of bursaries to cover £200 of registration fees. If you would like to apply for a bursary, please do so on the 'application questions' page of the registration form, detailing your motivation for attending the workshop and why a bursary would help.

Applications for the workshop will close either when all registration places are taken or by Friday 8th August 2025. The 20 successful applicants will be informed the following week.

Contact the organisers

Please contact [email protected] with questions and queries.

Diamond Light Source

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