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Recent publications...  Lavoie, Brigitte D.# , Tuffo, K. Michelle#, Oh, Scott, Koshland, Douglas and Connie Holm* (2000) Mitotic chromosome condensation requires Brn1p, the yeast homologue of Barren, Mol. Biol. Cell, 11:1293-1304. (# co-first authors) Lavoie, Brigitte D.* (corresp author), Hogan, Eileen and Doug Koshland (2002). In vivo dissection of the chromosome condensation machinery: reversibility of condensation distinguishes contributions of condensin and cohesin, J. Cell Biol. 156: 805-815. Lavoie, Brigitte D.*(corresp author) , Hogan, Eileen and Doug Koshland (2004). In vivo intermediates in condensation reveal dual pathways for mitotic chromosome folding. GenesDev. 18:76-87. Highlighted in Nature Reviews in Mol Cell Biology, (2004) vol5, p.82) Kapoor, Priya, Lavoie, Brigitte and Lori Frappier* (2005). EBP2 plays a key role in Epstein Barr Virus Mitotic Segregation and is Regulated by Aurora family kinases. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 25: 4934-4945. Lam, Wendy WS, Peterson, Erica, Yeung, Mantek and Brigitte D. Lavoie* (2006) Condensin defines a novel mechanism for reversible, cohesin-independent sister chromatid pairing, GenesDev. 20:2973. Lavoie, Brigitte D. (2008) pRb and condensin—local control of global chromosome structure GenesDev,22: 964-969. Waples, William, Chahwan, Charly, Ciechonska, Marta and Brigitte D. Lavoie* (2009) Tof2 orchestrates the biphasic release of Cdc14 phosphatase during mitotic exit. Mol Biol Cell 20: 245-255. Ng, Tessie M, Waples, William G., Lavoie, Brigitte D. and Sue Biggins* (2009) Pericentromeric Sister Chromatid Cohesion Promotes Kinetochore Biorientation. Mol Biol Cell 20:3818-3827. Manuscripts in progress Yoon, Ju Y. and Brigitte D. Lavoie (2010) The interphase function of condensin promotes kinetochore biorientation during mitosis. Thickett, Kelly R. and Brigitte D. Lavoie (2010) Pre-anaphase downregulation of cohesin function underlies the requirement for condensin for robust sister chromatid chohesion. Acknowledgements This work was funded by CIHR research and salary grants to BL. CIHR post-graduate funding supports both L.D’Ambrosio and C. Chahwan in my group.