Bissonnette-Dulude, J., Coulombe, S., Gervais, T., & Reuter, S. (2023). Coupling the COST reference plasma jet to a microfluidic device: a new diagnostic tool for plasma-liquid interactions. Plasma Sources Science & Technology, 32(5), 055003 (11 pages).
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Thomas Gervais (69)
- Journal articles (38)
- 2023
Journal article Journal article Dorrigiv, D., Goyette, P.-A. F., St-Georges-Robillard, A., Mes-Masson, A.-M., & Gervais, T. (2023). Pixelated microfluidics for drug screening on tumour spheroids and ex vivo microdissected tumour explants. Cancers, 15(4), 1060 (20 pages).Journal article Boulais, E., & Gervais, T. (2023). The 2D microfluidics cookbook - modeling convection and diffusion in plane flow devices. Lab on a Chip, 23(8), 1967-1980.Journal article Boulais, E., & Gervais, T. (2023). The 2D microfluidics cookbook – modeling convection and diffusion in plane flow devices. Lab on a Chip, 14 pages.
- 2022
Journal article Refet-Mollof, E., Najyb, O., Chermat, R., Glory, A., Lafontaine, J., Wong, P., & Gervais, T. (2022). Abstract B005: Hypoxic sarcoma spheroid on a chip: Insights into treatment response. Clinical Cancer Research, 28(18_Supplem), 1 page.Journal article Gervais, T., Temiz, Y., Aube, L., & Delamarche, E. (2022). Large-Scale Dried Reagent Reconstitution and Diffusion Control Using Microfluidic Self-Coalescence Modules. Small, 18(16), e2105939 (10 pages).Journal article Boyadjian, O., Boulais, E., & Gervais, T. (2022). Microfluidic Surface Shields: Control of Flow and Diffusion over Sensitive Surfaces. Physical Review Applied, 17(1), 10 pages.Journal article Chermat, R., Ziaee, M., Mak, D. Y., Refet-Mollof, E., Rodier, F., Wong, P., Carrier, J.-F., Kamio, Y., & Gervais, T. (2022). Radiotherapy on-chip: microfluidics for translational radiation oncology. Lab on a Chip, 22(11), 2065-2079.
- 2021
Journal article Castonguay, S., & Gervais, T. (2021). A simple static contact angle-based mesh-dependency correction for 3D capillary flow simulations. Computers & Fluids, 228, 8 pages.Journal article Refet-Mollof, E., Najyb, O., Chermat, R., Glory, A., Lafontaine, J., Wong, P., & Gervais, T. (2021). Hypoxic jumbo spheroids on-a-chip (HOnAChip): insights into treatment efficacy. Cancers, 13(16), 20 pages.Journal article Dorrigiv, D., Simeone, K., Communal, L., Kendall-Dupont, J., St-Georges-Robillard, A., Péant, B., Carmona, E., Mes-Masson, A.-M., & Gervais, T. (2021). Microdissected tissue vs tissue slices - a comparative study of tumor explant models cultured on-chip and off-chip. Cancers, 13(16), 4208 (14 pages).Journal article Dorrigiv, D., Simeone, K., Communal, L., Kendall-Dupont, J., St-Georges-Robillard, A., Peant, B., Carmona, E., Mes-Masson, A.-M., & Gervais, T. (2021). Microdissected Tissue vs. Tissue Slices-A Comparative Study of Tumor Explant Models Cultured On-Chip and Off-Chip. Cancers, 13(16), 4208 (14 pages).Journal article Goyette, P.-A., Boulais, E., Tremblay, M., & Gervais, T. (2021). Pixel-based open-space microfluidics for versatile surface processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(2), e201924811 (7 pages).Journal article Rocca, M., Temiz, Y., Salva, M. L., Castonguay, S., Gervais, T., Niemeyer, C. M., & Delamarche, E. (2021). Rapid quantitative assays for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) and hemoglobin combined on a capillary-driven microfluidic chip. Lab on a Chip, 21(18), 3573-3582.Journal article Bavoux, M., Kamio, Y., Vigneux-Foley, E., Lafontaine, J., Najyb, O., Refet-Mollof, E., Carrier, J.-F., Gervais, T., & Wong, P. (2021). X-ray on chip: Quantifying therapeutic synergies between radiotherapy and anticancer drugs using soft tissue sarcoma tumor spheroids. Radiotherapy and Oncology, 157, 175-181.
- 2020
Journal article Hawkins, S. M., Patra, B., Lateef, M. A., Brodeur, M. N., Fleury, H., Carmona, E., Péant, B., Provencher, D., Mes-Masson, A.-M., & Gervais, T. (2020). Carboplatin sensitivity in epithelial ovarian cancer cell lines: The impact of model systems. PLOS One, 15(12), 17 pages.Journal article Boulais, E., & Gervais, T. (2020). Two-dimensional convection-diffusion in multipolar flows with applications in microfluidics and groundwater flow. Physics of Fluids, 32(12), 122001 (12 pages).
- 2019
Journal article Cao, Y., Nallappan, K., Guerboukha, H., Gervais, T., & Skorobogatiy, M. A. (2019). Additive manufacturing of resonant fluidic sensors based on photonic bandgap waveguides for terahertz applications. Optics Express, 27(20), 27663-27681.Journal article St-Georges-Robillard, A., Cahuzac, M., Peant, B., Fleury, H., Lateef, M. A., Ricard, A., Sauriol, A., Leblond, F., Mes-Masson, A.-M., & Gervais, T. (2019). Long-term fluorescence hyperspectral imaging of on-chip treated co-culture tumour spheroids to follow clonal evolution. Integrative Biology, 11(4), 130-141.Journal article Goyette, P.-A., Boulais, É., Normandeau, F., Laberge, G., Juncker, D., & Gervais, T. (2019). Microfluidic multipoles theory and applications. Nature Communications, 10, 1781 (10 pages).Journal article Patra, B., Lafontaine, J., Bavoux, M., Zerouali, K., Glory, A., Ahanj, M., Carrier, J.-F., Gervais, T., & Wong, P. (2019). On-chip combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy testing on soft-tissue sarcoma spheroids to study cell death using flow cytometry and clonogenic assay. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 2214 (9 pages).Journal article Simeone, K., Guay-Lord, R., Lateef, M. A., Peant, B., Kendall-Dupont, J., Orimoto, A. M., Carmona, E., Provencher, D., Saad, F., Gervais, T., & Mes-Masson, A.-M. (2019). Paraffin-embedding lithography and micro-dissected tissue micro-arrays: tools for biological and pharmacological analysis of ex vivo solid tumors. Lab on a Chip, 19(4), 693-705.Journal article Goumlkccedile, O., Castonguay, S., Temiz, Y., Gervais, T., & Delamarche, E. (2019). Self-coalescing flows in microfluidics for pulse-shaped delivery of reagents. Nature, 574(7777), 228-245.
- 2018
Journal article Brimmo, A., Goyette, P.-A. F., Alnemari, R., Gervais, T., & Qasaimeh, M. A. (2018). 3D printed microfluidic probes. Scientific Reports, 8(1).Journal article St-Georges-Robillard, A., Masse, M., Cahuzac, M., Strupler, M., Patra, B., Orimoto, A. M., Kendall-Dupont, J., Péant, B., Mes-Masson, A.-M., Leblond, F., & Gervais, T. (2018). Fluorescence hyperspectral imaging for live monitoring of multiple spheroids in microfluidic chips. Analyst, 143(16), 3829-3840.Journal article Marimuthu, M., Rousset, N., St-Georges-Robillard, A., Lateef, M. A., Ferland, M., Mes-Masson, A.-M., & Gervais, T. (2018). Multi-size spheroid formation using microfluidic funnels. Lab on a Chip, 18(2), 304-314.
- 2017
Journal article Brunet, A. R., Labelle, F., Wong, P., & Gervais, T. (2017). Reconfigurable microfluidic magnetic valve arrays: towards a radiotherapy-compatible spheroid culture platform for the combinatorial screening of cancer therapies. Sensors, 17(10).Journal article Rousset, N., Monet, F., & Gervais, T. (2017). Simulation-assisted design of microfluidic sample traps for optimal trapping and culture of non-adherent single cells, tissues, and spheroids. Scientific Reports, 7.
- 2016
Journal article Astolfi, M., Peant, B., Lateef, M. A., Rousset, N., Kendall-Dupont, J., Carmona, E., Monet, F., Saad, F., Provencher, D., Mes-Masson, A. M., & Gervais, T. (2016). Micro-dissected tumor tissues on chip: an ex vivo method for drug testing and personalized therapy. Lab on a Chip, 16(2), 312-325.Journal article Astolfi, M., St-Georges-Robillard, A., Leblond, F., Mes-Masson, A.-M., & Gervais, T. (2016). Microfluidics and spectroscopic imaging for personalized medicine in ovarian cancer. SPIE Newsroom.
- 2015
Journal article Safavieh, M., Qasaimeh, M. A., Vakil, A., Juncker, D., & Gervais, T. (2015). Two-Aperture Microfluidic Probes as Flow Dipoles: Theory and Applications. Scientific Reports, 5.
- 2013
Journal article Das, T., Meunier, L., Barbe, L., Provencher, D., Guenat, O. T., Gervais, T., & Mes-Masson, A.-M. (2013). Empirical chemosensitivity testing in a spheroid model of ovarian cancer using a microfluidics-based multiplex platform. Biomicrofluidics, 7(1).Journal article Morin, M., Gervais, T., & Ménard, D. (2013). L'évaluation de la résolution de problèmes dans un cours de Mécanique pour ingénieurs : une comparaison entre deux méthodes. J3eA, Journal sur l'enseignement des sciences et technologies de l'information et des systèmes, 12, 6 pages.Journal article Tawil, N., Hatef, A., Sacher, E., Maisonneuve, M., Gervais, T., Mandeville, R., & Meunier, M. (2013). Surface plasmon resonance determination of the binding mechanisms of l-cysteine and mercaptoundecanoic acid on gold. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117(13), 6712-6718.
- 2012
Journal article Mes-Masson, A.-M., Caceres, K., Barrès, V.́., Das, T., Meunier, L., Guenat, O. T., Gervais, T., Tonin, P., & Provencher, D. (2012). Biomarkers in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer—or Should We Go with the Flow? Biology of Reproduction, 87(Suppl_1), 1 page.
- 2011
Journal article Qasaimeh, M. A., Gervais, T., & Juncker, D. (2011). Microfluidic quadrupole and floating concentration gradient. Nature Communications, 2.
- 2006
Journal article Gervais, T., El-Ali, J., Gunther, A., & Jensen, K. F. (2006). Flow-induced deformation of shallow microfluidic channels. Lab Chip, 6(4), 500-7.Journal article Gervais, T., & Jensen, K. F. (2006). Mass transport and surface reactions in microfluidic systems. Chemical Engineering Science, 61(4), 1102-1121.
- 2023
- Conference papers (25)
- 2023
Conference paper Reuter, S., Bisonnette-Dulude, J., Pepijn, H., Coulombe, S., Gervais, T., & Bogaerts, A. (2023, October). Coupling of a microfluidic device with a reference cold plasma jet [Paper]. 76th annual Gaseous Electronics Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
- 2021
Conference paper Gervais, T., Temiz, Y., Aube, L., & Delamarche, E. (2021, October). Self-Coalescence Module Arrays for Large-Scale Reagent Reconstitution and Diffusion-Controlled Experiment [Paper]. 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2021), Palm Spring, CA, USA.
- 2020
Conference paper Goldgewicht, J., Tan, J. J., Grygorczyk, R., Gervais, T., & Yu, F. T. H. (2020, September). A multiplexed microfluidic and microscopy study of vasodilation signaling pathways using microbubble and ultrasound therapy [Paper]. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS 2020), Las Vegas, Nevada.Conference paper Simeone, K., Peant, B., Carmona, E., Provencher, D., Saad, F., Gervais, T., & Mes-Masson, A.-M. (2020, October). An ex vivo tumor-derived model to study the effect of therapeutic agents used for the treatement of cancer patients [Paper]. 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2020).Conference paper Boulais, E., & Gervais, T. (2020, October). Creative shaping of 2D flow and concentration profiles in microfluidic chambers [Paper]. 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2020).
- 2019
Conference paper Cao, Y., Nallappan, K., Guerboukha, H., Gervais, T., & Skorobogatiy, M. A. (2019, September). Photonic Bandgap Bragg Waveguide-based Terahertz Microfluidic Sensor [Paper]. 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz 2019), Paris, France (2 pages).Conference paper Cao, Y., Nallappan, K., Guerboukha, H., Gervais, T., & Skorobogatiy, M. A. (2019, March). Photonic Bandgap Bragg Waveguide-based Terahertz Microfluidic Sensor [Abstract]. 8th International Conference on Optical Terahertz Science and Technology (OTST 2019), Santa Fe, NM, USA.Conference paper Goyette, P.-A., Dorrigiv, D., Tremblay, M., Simone, K., & Gervais, T. (2019, October). Pixelated chemical display: Towards massively parallel dynamic surface processing [Paper]. 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2019), Basel, Switzerland.
- 2018
Conference paper Goyette, P.-A., & Gervais, T. (2018, November). 3D printed microfluidic probes and streaming displays [Paper]. 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2018), Kaohsiung, Taiwan.Conference paper Simeone, K., Guay-Lord, R., Lateef, A. M., Peant, B., Carmona, E., Kendall-Dupont, J., Orimoto, A. M., Provencher, D., Saad, F., Mes-Masson, A.-M., & Gervais, T. (2018, November). Micro-dissected tissue microarrays for drug discovery and therapeutic response assays on ex vivo tumor samples [Paper]. 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2018), Kaohsiung, Taiwan.Conference paper St-Georges-Robillard, A., Cahuzac, M., Sauriol, A., Peant, B., Mes-Masson, A.-M., Leblond, F., & Gervais, T. (2018, November). Quantifying ParPi-resistant subpopulations after treatment in co-culture spheroids using hyperspectral imaging [Paper]. 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2018), Kaohsiung, Taiwan.Conference paper Goyette, P.-A., Boulais, E., Normandeau, F., Laberge, G., Juncker, D., & Gervais, T. (2018, November). Reconfigurable multipolar open-space microfluidics [Paper]. 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2018), Kaohsiung, Taiwan.Conference paper Boulais, E., Goyette, P.-A., & Gervais, T. (2018, November). Understanding convection-diffusion in open-space microfluidics via conformal mapping [Paper]. 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2018), Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
- 2017
Conference paper St-Georges-Robillard, A., Masse, M., Patra, B., Orimoto, A. M., Strupler, M., Mes-Masson, A. M., Leblond, F., & Gervais, T. (2017, October). Chemosensitivity analysis of co-culture spheroids on-chip using hyperspectral fluorescence imaging [Paper]. 21st International Conference on Miniaturization in Chemistry and the Life Sciences (microTAS), Savannah, GA, ÉU.Conference paper St-Georges-Robillard, A., Masse, M., Patra, B., Orimoto, A. M., Strupler, M., Mes-Masson, A.-M., Leblond, F., & Gervais, T. (2017, October). Chemosensitivity analysis of co-culture tumor spheroids on chip using hyperspectral fluorescence imaging [Paper]. 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2017), Savannah, GA, USA.Conference paper Guay Lord, R., Simeone, K., Lateef, M. A., Peant, B., Carmona, E., Saad, F., Mes-Masson, A. M., & Gervais, T. (2017, October). Micro-dissected tissue array: a chip-based strategy for morphological and immunohistochemical evaluation of therapeutic response [Paper]. 21st International Conference on Miniaturization in Chemistry and the Life Sciences (microTAS), Savannah, GA.Conference paper Brunet, A. R., Wong, P., & Gervais, T. (2017, October). Reconfigurable Magnetic Valve Arrays: A tool for the multiplexed testing of combination therapies on Spheroids [Paper]. 21st International Conference on Miniaturization in Chemistry and the Life Sciences (microTAS), Savannah, GA, ÉU.
- 2016
Conference paper Patra, B., Carmona, E., Lateef, M. A., Kendall-Dupont, J., Peant, B., Provencher, D., Mes-Masson, A. M., & Gervais, T. (2016, October). Are 3D spheroids always more resistant to chemotherapy than 2D cultures? A chip-based survey using ovarian cancer cell lines [Paper]. 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2016), Dublin, Ireland.Conference paper Patra, B., Brunet, A. R., Zerouali, K., Carrier, J. F., Wong, P., & Gervais, T. (2016, October). On-chip combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy testing on soft-tissue sarcoma spheroids [Paper]. 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2016), Dublin, Ireland.Conference paper Gokce, O., Castonguay, S., Temiz, Y., Gervais, T., & Delamarche, E. (2016, October). Passive "orthogonal flow mixers" for homogeneous dissolution of reagents in microfluidics [Paper]. 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2016), Dublin, Ireland.Conference paper Lateef, M. A., Péant, B., Rousset, N., Simeone, K., Kendall-Dupont, J., Mari Orimoto, A., Mes-Masson, A.-M., Gervais, T., & Saad, F. (2016, June). Rapid prediction of personalized response to chemotherapy using sub-millimeter ex-vivo biopsy samples on chip [Poster]. Congrès annuel de l'Association des urologues du Canada (CUA 2016), Vancouver, B.-C..Conference paper Choi, B., Kollias, N., Zeng, H., Kang, H. W., Wong, B. J. F., Ilgner, J. F., Tearney, G. J., Gregory, K. W., Marcu, L., Skala, M. C., Campagnola, P. J., Mandelis, A., Morris, M. D., St-Georges-Robillard, A., Masse, M., Kendall-Dupont, J., Strupler, M., Patra, B., Jermyn, M., ... Gervais, T. (2016, February). Spectroscopic imaging system for high-throughput viability assessment of ovarian spheroids or microdissected tumor tissues (MDTs) in a microfluidic chip [Paper]. Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics XII, San Francisco, California.
- 2015
Conference paper Astolfi, M., Lateef, A., Peant, B., Kendall-Dupont, J., Rousset, N., Saad, F., Provencher, D., Mes-Masson, A. M., & Gervais, T. (2015, October). Beyond spheroids: Human micro-dissected tumors as a patient-specific model to predict treatment response [Paper]. 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2015), Gyeongju, Korea, Republic of.Conference paper Marimuthu, M., Rousset, N., Pareek, M., Beaudoin, S. B., Mes-Masson, A. M., & Gervais, T. (2015, October). Single inlet multi-size spheroid synthesis chip (simss chip) [Paper]. 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2015), Gyeongju, Korea, Republic of.
- 2014
Conference paper Gervais, T., Safavieh, M., Qasaimeh, M. A., & Juncker, D. (2014, August). Systematic analysis of microfluidic probe design and operation [Paper]. 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Chicago, Illinois.
- 2023
- Book chapters (4)
- 2023
Book chapter Marimuthu, M., & Gervais, T. (2023). Multiplexed Viability Assays for High-Throughput Screening of Spheroids of Multiple Sizes. In Friedrich, O., & Gilbert, D. F. (eds.), Cell Viability Assays: Methods and Protocols (435-447).
- 2022
Book chapter Lafontaine, J., Refet-Mollof, E., Najyb, O., Gervais, T., & Wong, P. (2022). Cell Death Analysis in Cancer Spheroids from a Microfluidic Device. In Apoptosis and Cancer: Methods and Protocols (13-25).
- 2018
Book chapter Boulais, E., & Gervais, T. (2018). Hele-Shaw flow theory in the context of open microfluidics : from dipoles to quadrupoles. In Open-Space Microfluidics: Concepts, Impementations, Applications .
- 2017
Book chapter Guay-Lord, R., Lateef, M. A., Simeone, K., Péant, B., Kendall-Dupont, J., Mes-Masson, A.-M., Gervais, T., & Saad, F. (2017). Microfluidic Devices and Micro-Dissected Tissue to Predict Therapeutic Response in Patients with Prostate Cancer. In Advances in Experimental Surgery. Volume 2 .
- 2023
- Patents (1)
- 2012
Patent Pearse, G., Borduas, J., Gervais, T., Ménard, D., Seddaoui, D., & Ung, B. (2012). Method and system for magnetic separation of rare earths. (Patent Application no. US20140166788).
- 2012
- Theses (1)
- 2005
Thesis Gervais, T. (2005). Mass transfer and structural analysis of microfluidic sensors [Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology].
- 2005