Publications
Selected publications
- “Preprocessing of Nanopore Signals” Inventors: Kyle Briggs, Vincent Tabard-Cossa, Paula Branco, and Deekshant Wadhwa. Priority date: September 2024. Patent Pending, Licensed
- “Improved Techniques for Nanopore Enlargement” inventors: Matthew Waugh, Kyle Briggs, Vincent Tabard-Cossa. United States Patent Application. 63/042,637. June 23 2020. Applicaton dropped at the national phase.
- “Controlling Translocating Molecules Through a Nanopore” PCT/US18/29939 Inventors: Kyle Briggs, Vincent Tabard-Cossa, Gregory Madejski, James McGrath. Priority date: April 28, 2017. Applicaton dropped at the national phase.
- “Localizing Nanopore Fabrication on a Membrane by Laser Illumination during Controlled Breakdown” Publication number: WO2016135656A1 Application number: PCT/IB2016/051017 Inventors: Jose Bustamante, Kyle Briggs, Vincent Tabard-Cossa. Priority date: Feb 24, 2015. Patent issued and Licensed
- “Nanopore Fabrication within Microfluidic Channels” PCT/IB2015/059799. Inventors: Radin Tahvildari, Eric Beamish, Michel Godin, Vincent Tabard-Cossa. Priority date: Dec 19, 2014. Issued and Licensed
- “Fabrication of nanopores using high electric fields” Publication number: WO2013167955 A1. Application number: PCT/IB2013/000891. Inventors: Harold Kwok, Vincent Tabard-Cossa, Kyle Briggs. Priority date: May 7, 2012. Issued and Licensed
- “Method for controlling the size of solid-state nanopores” Publication number: WO2013167952 A1. Application number: PCT/IB2013/000884. Inventors: Michel Godin, Eric Beamish, Vincent Tabard-Cossa, Harold Kwok. Priority date: May 7, 2012. Issued and Licensed
- “Flow control method and apparatuses” Publication number: US20140090981 A1. Application number: US 14/043,710. Inventors: Kee-Hyun Paik, Yang Liu, Vincent Tabard-Cossa, Robert W. Dutton. Priority date: Oct 1, 2012. Issued and Licensed
- Martin Charron (Ph.D. Thesis in Physics), “Nanopore Resistive Sensing: Bridging Theory and Experiments” – 2025 – read
- Deekshant Wadhwa (M.Sc. Thesis in Computer Science), “Nano Trees: Machine Learning Enhanced Signal Processing of Nanopore Data” – 2024 – read
- Zachary Roelen (Ph.,D. Thesis in Physics), “Transducing Signals and Pre-Concentrating Molecules for Enhanced Solid-State Nanopore Biosensing” – 2024 – read
- Liqun He (Ph.D. Thesis in Physics), “DNA Nanostructures for Nanopore-based Digital Assays” – 2022 – read
- Dmytro Lomovtsev (M.A.Sc. Thesis in Mechanical Engineering), “A Platform for High-Bandwidth, Low-Noise Electrical Nanopore Sensing with Thermal Control” – 2022 – read
- Simon King (M.Sc. Thesis in Physics), “Nanopore Sensing of PCR-Amplified Pathogenic DNA” – 2022 – read
- Martin Charron (M.Sc. Thesis in Physics), “Optimizing the Single-Molecule Counting Process of Solid-State Nanopores” – 2019 – read
- Eric Beamish (Ph.D. Thesis in Physics), co-supervised with M. Godin, “Biomarker Assay Development and Sensing with Solid-State Nanopores” – 2019 – read
- Kyle Briggs (Ph.D. Thesis in Physics), “Applications of Solid-State Nanopores” – 2018 – Awarded the Pierre Laberge Thesis Prize – read
- Philipp Karau (M.Sc. Thesis in Physics), “DNA Labels for Improved Detection and Capture with Solid-State Nanopores” – 2018 – read
- Radin Tahvildari (Ph.D. Thesis in Physics), co-supervised with M. Godin, “Integrating Solid-State Nanopore Sensors within Various Microfluidic Arrays for Single-Molecule Detection” – 2016 – read
- Matthew Waugh (M.Sc. Thesis in Physics), “Modifying translocation kinetics and capture rate of biomolecules by interfacing a solid-state nanopore with a gel” – 2015 – read
- Jose Bustamante (M.Sc. Thesis in Physics), “Nano- and Microfluidics for single-molecule spectroscopy” – 2014 – read
- Wing Hei Harold Kwok (Ph.D. Thesis in Physics), “New Approach in Fabrication of Solid-State Nanopore for Bio-Sensing Applications” – 2014 – read
- Kyle Briggs, Matthew Waugh and Vincent Tabard-Cossa – Chapter 1: “Fabricating Solid-State Nanopores for Single-Molecule Sensing” in Solid State Nanopores: From Fabrication to Biosensing, pages 1-33, Springer International Publishing (2023) – read
- Vincent Tabard-Cossa “Engineered Nanopores for Bioanalytical Applications – Chapter 3: Instrumentation for Low-Noise High-Bandwidth Nanopore Recording” pages 59-88 editors: Edel, J. B. and Albrecht, T.; Elsevier (2013) – read.
For the most up-to-date list of publications see my Google Scholar profile.
2026
Dynamics of Heparin Translocations through Solid-State Nanopores
Kexin (Kara) Zhao, Matthew Waugh, Kyle Briggs, Mohammad P. Jamshidi, Janelle Sauvageau and Vincent Tabard-Cossa
Under Review
2025
2024
2023
DNA Origami Characterized via Solid-State Nanopore: Insights into Nanostructure Dimensions, Rigidity and Yield
Liqun He, Martin Charron, Philipp Karau, Kyle Briggs, Jonathan Adams, Hendrick de Haan, and Vincent Tabard-Cossa
Nanoscale 15 (34), 14043-14054 (2023)
2022
Aoife Reilly, Marc-Olivier Deguise, Ariane Beauvais, Rebecca Yaworski, Simon Thebault, Daniel R. Tessier, Vincent Tabard-Cossa, Niko Hensel, Bernard L. Schneider & Rashmi Kothary
Gene Therapy 29, 544–554 (2022)
Kyle Briggs, Mohamed Yassine Bouhamidi, Liqun He, and Vincent Tabard-Cossa
Autumn Carlsen and Vincent Tabard-Cossa
Proteomics, 22, e2100068 (2022)
2021
Liqun He, Daniel R. Tessier, Kyle Briggs, Matthaios Tsangaris, Martin Charron, Erin M. McConnell, Dmytro Lomovtsev & Vincent Tabard-Cossa
Protocol Exchange (version 1; posted 10 Feb, 2022)
Yi-Lun Ying, Aleksandar P. Ivanov & Vincent Tabard-Cossa
Nature Chemistry 13, 216–217 (2021)
2020
2019
Analytical Chemistry 91, 19, 12228–12237 (2019)
2018
Philipp Karau and Vincent Tabard-Cossa
Kyle Briggs, Gregory Madejski, Martin Magill, Konstantinos Kastritis, Hendrick W. de Haan, James L. McGrath, and Vincent Tabard-Cossa
Explainer video by Gregory Madejski
2017
2016
2015
2014
2012-2013
2011 and before
- Jetha N. N., Feehan C., Wiggin M., Tabard-Cossa V., Marziali A., “Long dwell time passage of DNA through nanometer-scale pores: Kinetics and sequence dependence of motion“ Biophysical Journal 100, 12, 2974-2980 (2011)
- Paik, K. H.; Liu, Y.; Tabard-Cossa, V.; Huber, D. E.; Provine, J.; Howe, R. T.; Dutton, R. W.; Davis, R. W. “Experimental Demonstration and Analysis of DNA Passage in Nanopore-based Nanofluidic Transistors” Conference Proceedings of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting – IEDM (2011)
- Paik, K. H.; Liu, Y.; Tabard-Cossa, V.; Huber, D. E.; Provine, J.; Howe, R. T.; Dutton, R. W.; Davis, R. W. “Efficient Control of DNA Motion and Translocation in Nanopore-based Nanofluidic Transistors” Conference Proceeding at the 15th Int. Conf. on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences – µTAS (2011)
- Liu Y., Huber D., Tabard-Cossa V., Dutton R. W., “Descreening of field effect in electrically gated nanopores” Applied Physics Letters 97, 143109, 3 pages, (2010)
- Godin M.*, Tabard-Cossa V.*, Miyahara Y., Monga T., Williams P J, Beaulieu L Y, Lennox R B., Grutter P., “Cantilever-Based Sensing: Origin of the Surface Stress and Optimization Strategies” Nanotechnology 21, 075501, 8 pages, (2010) *These authors contributed equally to this work
- Tabard-Cossa V., Wiggin M., Trivedi D., Jetha N. N., Dwyer J. R., Marziali A., “Single-Molecule Bonds Characterized by Solid-State Nanopore Force Spectroscopy” ACS Nano 3 (10), 3009-3014 (2009)
- Branton D., Deamer D. W., Marziali A., Bayley H., Benner S. A., Butler T., Di Ventra M., Garaj S., Hibbs A., Huang X., Jovanovich S. B., Krstic P. S., Lindsay S., Ling X. S., Mastrangelo C. H., Meller A., Oliver J. S., Pershin Y. V., Ramsey J. M., Riehn R., Soni G. V., Tabard-Cossa V., Wanunu M., Wiggin M. & Schloss J. A.; “The potential and challenges of nanopore sequencing” Nature Biotechnology 26, 1146-1153 (2008)
- Wiggin M.; Tropini C.; Tabard-Cossa V.; and Marziali A.; “Non-exponential kinetics of DNA escape from alpha-Hemolysin nanopores” Biophysical Journal 95, 5317–5323 (2008)
- Tabard-Cossa, V.; Godin, M.; Burgess, I.; Monga, T.; Lennox, R. B.; Grütter, P.; “Microcantilever-based Sensors: Effect of Morphology, Adhesion and Cleanliness of the Sensing Substrate on Surface Stress” Analytical Chemistry 79, 8136 -8143, (2007)
- Tabard-Cossa, V.; Trivedi, D.; Wiggin, M.; Jetha, N.; Marziali, A.; “Noise Analysis and Reduction in Solid-State Nanopores” Nanotechnology 18, 305505 (2007)
- Beaulieu L.Y.; Godin M.; Laroche O.; Tabard-Cossa V.; and Grütter P., “A complete analysis of the laser beam deflection systems used in cantilever-based systems” Ultramicroscopy 107, 422-430 (2007)
- Beaulieu, L.Y.; Godin, M.; Laroche, O.; Tabard-Cossa, V.; Grütter, P.; “Calibrating Laser Beam Deflection Systems for use in Atomic Force Microscopes and Cantilever Sensors” Applied Physics Letters 88, 083108 (2006)
- Tabard-Cossa, V.; Godin, M.; Burgess, I.; Lennox, R. B.; Grütter, P.; “Redox-induced Surface Stress of Polypyrrole-based actuators” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109 (37), 17531-17537 (2005)
- Tabard-Cossa, V.; Godin, M.; Beaulieu, L.Y.; Grütter, P.; “A Differential Microcantilever-Based System for Measuring Surface Stress Changes Induced by Electrochemical Reactions” Sensors and Actuators B 107, 233-241 (2005) – Erratum: Sensors and Actuators B 119, 352-354 (2006)
- Godin, M.; Williams, P.J.; Tabard-Cossa, V.; Laroche, O.; Beaulieu, L.Y.; Lennox, R. B.; Grütter, P.; “Surface Stress, Kinetics, and Structure of Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers” Langmuir 20, 7090 (2004) – Featured on the Langmuir journal cover
- Quist, F.; Tabard-Cossa, V.; Badia, A. “Nanomechanical Cantilever Motion Generated by a Surface-Confined Redox Reaction” Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107, 10691-10695 (2003)
- Godin, M.; Laroche, O.; Tabard-Cossa, V.; Beaulieu, L.Y.; Grütter, P.; Williams, P.J.; “Combined in situ Micromechanical Cantilever-Based Sensing and Ellipsometry” Review of Scientific Instruments 74, 4902 (2003)
- Godin, M.; Tabard-Cossa, V.; Grütter, P.; Williams, P.; “Quantitative Surface Stress Measurements using a Microcantilever” Applied Physics Letter 79, 551 (2001)