Registration is now open for the 2026 CCP4 study weekend entitled " Ligands in Focus: Decoding Ligand Binding in Modern Structural Biology".
This year the CCP4 Study Weekend will be held as a hybrid event from the 7th to 9th January 2026, enabling people to choose whether to attend in-person or virtually. The in-person event will be held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, UK.
We would like to invite you to another iteration of the ever-popular CCP4 Study Weekend - to start the year 2026 with a lot of fresh ideas, new insights and (hopefully) new friends and contacts to boost. As always it will be an eclectic mix of bleeding-edge science, in-depth presentations, discussion panel, poster-sessions, hands-on tutorials, and plenty of opportunities for social interactions. For full details, programme, logistics and registration, please visit the Study Weekend website.
There is no better way to start 2026 than to put participation in that exciting meeting at the top of your “New Year’s Resolutions” list!
Complete list of speakers:
Keynote speaker – Rob van Montfort (The Institute of Cancer Research, UK)
Gustavo Bezerra (Bicycle Therapeutics, UK)
Phil Biggin (University of Oxford, UK)
Gisela Bränden (University of Gothenburg, SWEDEN)
Frank DiMaio (University of Washington, USA)
Seth Harris (Genentech, USA)
Doeke Hekstra (Harvard University, USA)
Fergus Imrie (University of Oxford, UK)
Frank Kozielski (University College London, UK)
Roshan Kunnakkatu (PDBe, UK)
Dorothee Liebschner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Gustavo Lima (Astex Pharmaceuticals, UK)
Nir London (Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL)
Filipe Menezes (Helmholtz Centre Munich, GERMANY)
Melanie Oelker (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, GERMANY)
Nicholas Pearce (Linkoping University, SWEDEN)
Ailsa Powell (Diamond Light Source, UK)
Thorben Schulze (University of Hamburg, GERMANY)
Natalie Tatum (Newcastle University, UK)
Daniela Trivella (LNBio, BRAZIL)
Registration costs for In-person event
*FREE to students registering in the Early bird registration period due to standard student bursary which also includes cost of 1 night in halls accommodation or subsidised night for 1 night in hotel
*FREE for Emeritus/Retired delegates registering in the Early bird period due to new Emeritus/Retired bursary which also includes cost of 1 night in hotel accommodation
*£325 for standard delegates in Early bird period (rising to £350 after)
Key Dates:
* Early bird registration final date: 16 November 2025 – this Sunday!;
* Standard Student bursaries are open to all students registering during early bird period i.e. now until 16 November which cover the cost of registration plus one night accommodation in halls (1 night in hotel will be subsidised for those students choosing to stay in the hotel);
* NEW THIS YEAR – Emeritus/Retired bursaries for active retired / Emeritus scientists to attend the in-person event. This is aimed at non-funded / no-income crystallography contributors. The bursary will cover registration fee plus one night in hotel;
* Travel bursaries are available for students and young postdocs studying at overseas labs to help cover cost of travel to UK. The deadline for applications is 31 October 2025;
*Registration for in-person delegates closes 7 December 2025 (or earlier if in-person places sell out although you will be able to join the in-person waitlist).
* Registration for virtual delegates will close 9 January 2026.
Key Timings
Diamond MX user meeting will start at 11:00 on 7TH January 2026
CCP4 study weekend 2025 will start at ~17:30 on 7th January 2026
the event will finish at ~16:30 on 9th January 2026
