

NESM Fall Symposium
6-7 November 2025, Waltham, MA
NESM is pleased to announce that this year's Fall Symposium will be held in-person at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA).
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We have an exciting program of speakers, workshops, vendor fair and abstract selected posters and presentations lined up. Interested in giving a talk or presenting a poster? Make sure to submit your abstract no later than 20 October 2025! Register by clicking the button below and then you will be sent an email to submit your abstract.
Registration and Abstract Submission
Registration is open! Not a member yet? Join for free in 2025!
Limited on-site registration will also be available. Please contact us if you are interested in on-site registration for workshops or the meeting to ensure we reserve space.
After registration you will be sent an email with a link for submitting abstracts. We have opportunities for poster and oral presentations for researchers, vendors and core facilities.
Time & Location
Nov 06, 2024, 12:00 PM – Nov 07, 2024, 5:00 PM
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Brandeis University, Science Complex
Workshops and Networking Event on November 6:
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Symposium on November 7:
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Accomodation
On-site housing is available on a first-come first-serve basis at the the Lodge - with suites, queens and double-twin rooms available. Fill out the inquiry form to request accommodation.
There is also a Marriott a 6-minute drive from Brandeis
Travel
We will provide an update on parking arrangements when we have them
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Brandeis is highly accessible via the MBTA commuter rail on the Fitchburg line with the Brandeis/Roberts stop a 5-minute walk from campus
Speakers
UMass Amherst
Brown University
MIT
Boston Children's Hospital
Workshops
Workshops
We are pleased to offer the following workshops on Day 1 (Nov. 6) at this year's Fall Symposium:
Introduction to
3-D printing for microscopy
Evident Scientific Confocal Demonstration
Tundra Cryo-EM demonstration and workshop
Trish L. Andrew
UMass Amherst

Bio​
Professor Trisha L. Andrew is a Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She directs the Wearable Electronics Lab, a multi-disciplinary research team that uses chemical vapor deposition to create a variety of functional coatings on unconventional substrates, such as textiles, yarns and plants, and demonstrates the uses of these coated samples in energy harvesting/storage and integrated sensing systems.
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Abstract
Polymer Chemical Vapor Deposition for Garment-Integrated Electronics
Chemical vapor deposition is a solvent-free synthesis and processing method for forming polymer films on unconventional substrates and is particularly useful for creating flexible, wearable and/or plant-based electronics using sustainable practices. I will the detail the materials science and engineering advances made by my team while creating various electronic garments and functional/technical textiles, and introduce recent efforts in creating textile coatings for energy harvesting, carbon capture and temperature management.

Geoff Williams
Brown University

Bio​
Geoff Williams is in his twentieth year as manager of the Leduc BioImaging Facility at Brown University. Everything clicked for him as an undergraduate at Connecticut College (1994) with the discovery of Electron Microscopy and being two classes short of adding two minors (Studio Art and Chemistry) to a Major with Honors and Distinction in Botany is a microcosm of his complex journey straddling the worlds of both art and science, coincidentally that was the year he became a member of the Microscopy Society of America and has been one ever since. The opportunity to combine visual arts, science, technology and mastery of a skill as challenging as the violin he plays was fully realized at Michigan State University working in the Center for Electron Optics. Geoff transitioned from a graduate program at MSU to running the Imaging facility at Central Michigan University, before making the move back to New England and Brown University. Nansoscape was coined with the first cohesive gallery collection at The Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University titled Edible Nanoscapes. From there Geoff has been focused on more defined collections like the Process of Scale, and most recently a collaboration with his father (now deceased) titled Desert Nanoscape. These last few collections are groups of images from very low to very high magnification, and placed near the two to four images are the actual sources the images were collected from, mounted and viewable with a dissecting microscope. Geoff Williams continues to develop his craft and his art by both teaching and creating challenges, always looking for the hidden beauty and exploring the nanoscape with the scanning electron microscope, and constantly striving to help scientists connect to the aesthetic power of all microscopy imaging modalities.
Julian Klein
MIT

Bio​
Julian Klein is a research scientist and sub-group leader in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, where he explores artificial quantum matter using scanning transmission electron microscopy. He joined MIT in 2020 as a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Julian earned his Ph.D. in Physics from TU Munich, where he investigated optical excitations and quantum defects in layered van der Waals materials. He also spent three months as a visiting researcher at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Columbia University, working on scanning tunneling microscopy of these systems.
Abstract
Constructing Artificial Matter in the Electron Microscope – Atom by Atom
Techniques such as lasers, ion traps, and scanning probes have enabled unprecedented control over individual atoms, surpassing naturally occurring configurations of matter and driving breakthroughs in quantum simulation and computing. However, extending this control to the interior of solids and achieving it at scale remains a grand challenge, one that could revolutionize the design and study of artificial matter. Here, I demonstrate the scalable construction of artificial matter in a scanning transmission electron microscope, atom by atom. By positioning the electron beam with picometer precision and executing targeted beam actions, we achieve deterministic control over atomic motion in space and time. Full automation of the microscope enables the creation of defect superlattices with controlled lattice spacing, spanning hundreds of sites over tens of nanometers, within minutes. These results establish atomic engineering at scale in the electron microscope as a reality, opening new opportunities to create quantum defects and engineer quantum phases with tunable charge and spin interactions that extend from the mesoscopic to potentially even macroscopic scales.
Elizabeth Engle
Boston Children's Hospital

Bio​
​Dr. Engle received her B.A. from Middlebury College and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She then trained as an intern and resident in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins, as a fellow in neuropathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and as a resident in adult and child neurology in the Longwood Neurology Training Program and Boston Children’s Hospital. Nearing the end of her neurology residency, Dr. Engle cared for a toddler born with a complex eye movement disorder that segregated in his family as a dominant trait. Interested in the etiology of his rare disorder, she pursued a research fellowship in genetics. As a result, this little boy became the proband for Dr. Engle’s research career, which now spans from patients through genetics to molecular mechanisms to understand human cranial nerve and axon guidance disorders. Her work has defined the human congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders and has been recognized by high-profile publications and by receipt of multiple honors, including the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics from the Society for Pediatric Research, Sidney Carter Award in Child Neurology from the American Academy of Neurology, Research Award for Vision from the Alcon Institute, and the Bernard Sachs Award from the Child Neurology Society, and election to the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In addition to her research, Dr. Engle continues to care for patients, primarily consulting for children and adults with rare eye movement and other cranial nerve disorders. She teaches in both the clinical and laboratory settings and has served on multiple committees that set the direction for neuroscience and ophthalmology research both locally and nationally.