The MGSS benefits from access to essential and unique resources.
Easy access to well-characterized brain samples through the Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank
- Over 3,600 human brain samples
- Ships 1,000 samples annually to researchers worldwide
- Actively recruits brains through a partnership with the Quebec Coroner’s Office
Centre for Translational Research on Mood Disorders and Suicide
- Combines several research areas – clinical, neuroanatomy, molecular and cellular biology, and epigenetics – with the goal of understanding the mechanisms underlying mood disorders and suicide
- Fully equipped with the tools to conduct translational research, a form of research that allows knowledge developed in basic and clinical research to be applied directly to patient
- Single-cell analysis capability (FACS, laser-capture microdissection)
- In-house sequencing equipment
- Biobanking facilities (blood samples, fibroblasts, pluripotent stem cells)
- Cell culture facility equipped for work with immortalized and primary cells
- Molecular and Cellular Microscopy Platform (confocal and multi-photon microscopes)
Molecular and Cellular Microscopy Platform
- One of the first Olympus Discovery Centers in Canada, born from a partnership between the research centre and Olympus Canada Inc established in 2015
- Advanced optical microscopy core facility that offers access to the latest fluorescence microscopy techniques for neuroscience research
Access to other resources located at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute
