Additional speakers will be announced soon.
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David Barth, University of Pennsylvania
| NEMO Chemical Requests Plug-in
| The NEMO Chemical Requests plugin is intended to help streamline the review, transfer, organization, and life-cycle of user-owned chemicals in shared facilities, which is a common lab management pain point. I will introduce the plugin’s functionality and also share some lessons learned in implementing the feature in two different ways at two different facilities. Since this was initially developed before the AI era and then updated more recently, I’ll also share some thoughts on how LLMs have altered the development process.
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Alex Denton, Stanford University
| Beyond the LED: Rich, Real-Time Tool Status Where It Matters
| Abstract: Most shared labs only expose tool state in NEMO or a binary LED at the tool. This work streams tool enable/disable and operational events from NEMO to MQTT so displays at each tool can show current user, upcoming reservations, and up/down status in real time. It manages this using a durable queue + PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY bridge so that NEMO stays reliable while IoT stays responsive.
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Jamie Ford, University of Pennsylvania
| The Power of the Jumbotron: Using Big TVs to Drive User Behavior
| One of the main reasons we made the Publications plugin was to make the standard NEMO informational jumbotrons a more dynamic and captivating experience. It was also a social experiment to see if our innate competitive spirit would drive others to do work for us. This talk will review participation in the Singh Center’s publication tracking over the last 3 years and efforts to build an analogue in the NexusLIMS data management system.
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Aaron Kitzmiller, Harvard University | A NICE use of NEMO | Abstract: Our effort to implement service request and billing applications across several instrument facilities at Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences began some time before the widespread adoption of NEMO, so user management, billing, and user interface libraries were fairly mature when we started discussing use of NEMO. I'll describe how we incorporated NEMO into our Nanoscale Instrument Control Environment (NICE) as a Django plugin to provide instrument management and control.
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Mercer County Community College (MCCC) Programming Team
| Secure and Automated NEMO Plug-in and File Server Connection
| Abstract: Getting data to and from facility tools such as lithography systems, microscopes, and other measurement instruments while limiting security risks to these critical systems can be a challenge. The M&R Team, mentored by the Princeton MNFC, has developed a NEMO plug-in that integrates with an open-source software on a Linux file server to provide seamless, secure access to user- and group-specific storage space. The implementation incorporates encryption, authentication, storage quotas, session-based access control, periodic synchronization check, automated cleanup, documented backup and disaster recovery procedures, and user-configurable options. This presentation will discuss architecture, functionalities, security and reliability features, and provide instructions and links for source code access. The team welcomes feedback and collaboration from the community.
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Brian Pepper, JPL
| NEMO Customizations at JPL
| At NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NEMO is used with a number of custom plugins adapted to local use cases. We discuss these plugins, including RFID chemical inventory management, support for new sensor types, early warning analysis for sensor alerts, Jumbotron customizations, and more.
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Josh Taillon, DataSophos
| Research Data Management in Multi-User Characterization Facilities with NEMO: NexusLIMS v2.0
| Shared-use characterization facilities face a persistent challenge: capturing rich, structured metadata about who collected data, on what instrument, and under what conditions, all without burdening users with manual record-keeping. NexusLIMS [1] is an open-source Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) originally developed at NIST that addresses this by automatically linking instrument scheduling records to raw data files and extracting instrument-specific metadata, producing searchable experiment records aligned with FAIR data principles. At its core, this is enabled through extensive harvesting of information from the NEMO API, which helps bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds, and allows the system to know who was on an instrument, for how long, and where their files should be located.
To further their data management capabilities, the Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania has recently sponsored the open-source development of version 2.0 of NexusLIMS [2], resulting in drastically simplified deployment and configuration, serving to democratize advanced data management capabilities for their own users and throughout the wider characterization community. In addition, NexusLIMS now has a modern and flexible plugin architecture to enable metadata extraction from many more types of instruments and support has been added for multiple data repository export destinations. This talk will review these recent developments, as well as how NexusLIMS integrates with a NEMO installation to provide a seamless experience for facility end users. Finally, a brief "getting started" demonstration will illustrate how one can easily get started using NexusLIMS at their facility.
[1] Taillon, J. A. et al. NexusLIMS: A Laboratory Information Management System for Shared-Use Electron Microscopy Facilities. *Microscopy and Microanalysis* 27, 511–527 (2021).
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Joseph Velez, University of Michigan
| osTicket Plug-in
| The osTicket plugin for NEMO lets the LNF at the University of Michigan promote proven communication with our lab users while minimizing complication for users and staff.
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Daniel Woodie, Princeton Materials Institute
| Integrated Real-time Process Charts in NEMO
| Abstract: Keeping tool charts for users up to date such as process benchmarking runs or measurements of calibration standards can be a challenge. This presentation will show multiple methods to make for easy data collection and automatic updating of these charts posted on the NEMO tool pages. Full instructions and examples files will be shared via QR code at the end of the presentation for easy deployment at your facility.
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