Cassio Mendes Fontes

Education

• Ph.D. Duke University, 2020

Positions

• Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Publications

• Kinnamon DS, Heggestad JT, Liu J, Nguyen T, Ly V, Hucknall AM, et al. Environmentally Resilient Microfluidic Point-of-Care Immunoassay Enables Rapid Diagnosis of Talaromycosis. ACS Sens. 2023 Jun 23;8(6):2228–36.
• Heggestad JT, Britton RJ, Kinnamon DS, Liu J, Anderson JG, Joh DY, et al. COVID-19 Diagnosis and SARS-CoV-2 Strain Identification by a Rapid, Multiplexed, Point-of-Care Antibody Microarray. Anal Chem. 2023 Apr 4;95(13):5610–7.
• Heggestad JT, Kinnamon DS, Liu J, Joh DY, Fontes CM, Wei Q, et al. Smartphone Enabled Point-of-Care Detection of Serum Biomarkers. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, NJ). 2022 Jan;2393:343–65.
• Heggestad JT, Kinnamon DS, Olson LB, Liu J, Kelly G, Wall SA, et al. Multiplexed, quantitative serological profiling of COVID-19 from blood by a point-of-care test. Sci Adv. 2021 Jun;7(26).
• Fontes CM, Lipes BD, Liu J, Agans KN, Yan A, Shi P, et al. Ultrasensitive point-of-care immunoassay for secreted glycoprotein detects Ebola infection earlier than PCR. Sci Transl Med. 2021 Apr 7;13(588).
• Cruz DF, Fontes CM, Semeniak D, Huang J, Hucknall A, Chilkoti A, et al. Ultrabright Fluorescence Readout of an Inkjet-Printed Immunoassay Using Plasmonic Nanogap Cavities. Nano letters. 2020 Jun;20(6):4330–6.
• Heggestad JT, Fontes CM, Joh DY, Hucknall AM, Chilkoti A. In Pursuit of Zero 2.0: Recent Developments in Nonfouling Polymer Brushes for Immunoassays. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla). 2020 Jan;32(2):e1903285.
• Joh DY, Zimmers Z, Avlani M, Heggestad JT, Aydin HB, Ganson N, et al. Architectural Modification of Conformal PEG-Bottlebrush Coatings Minimizes Anti-PEG Antigenicity While Preserving Stealth Properties. Adv Healthc Mater. 2019 Apr;8(8):e1801177.
• Fontes CM, Achar RK, Joh DY, Ozer I, Bhattacharjee S, Hucknall A, et al. Engineering the Surface Properties of a Zwitterionic Polymer Brush to Enable the Simple Fabrication of Inkjet-Printed Point-of-Care Immunoassays. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. 2019 Feb;35(5):1379–90.
• Joh DY, Hucknall AM, Wei Q, Mason KA, Lund ML, Fontes CM, et al. Inkjet-printed point-of-care immunoassay on a nanoscale polymer brush enables subpicomolar detection of analytes in blood. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Aug 22;114(34):E7054–62.
• Joh DY, McGuire F, Abedini-Nassab R, Andrews JB, Achar RK, Zimmers Z, et al. Poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate) Brushes on High-κ Metal Oxide Dielectric Surfaces for Bioelectrical Environments. ACS applied materials & interfaces. 2017 Feb;9(6):5522–9.