McGill University
3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler, Montreal, QC H3A 1A3
The MPCP was established in January 2017 and is part of the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Center (GCRC) and of the Biochemistry department. The mission of the MPCP is to support functional investigations of mammalian genomes by providing McGill researchers with complementary means of genetic perturbation that can be applied in order to understand gene function. These comprehensive technological platforms include arrayed and sequence-verified lentiviral genome-wide shRNA (gene suppression), cDNA (for gene overexpression) and CRISPR (for gene knockout/editing; human) libraries. These collections, in arrayed bacterial glycerol stocks, offer a renewable resource for diverse customized screening or testing of individual genes of interest across the human and mouse genomes.
It is typically very costly and time-consuming to obtain these reagents from commercial vendors. Our core service provides McGill researchers with rapid access to these essential genetic tools with at a minimal fee, greatly enhancing their research capacities.
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McGill University
3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler, Montreal, QC H3A 1A3