Representative Publications:

• Dai J, BA Sullivan and JMG Higgins (2006) Regulation of mitotic chromosome cohesion by haspin and aurora B, Dev Cell 11:741-750.
  
  
• Schueler, MG and BA Sullivan (2006) Structural and functional dynamics of human centromeric chromatin. Annual Rev Genomics Hum Genet 7:301-313.
  
  
• Lam, AL, CD Boivin, CF Bonney, MK Rudd and BA Sullivan (2006) Human centromeric chromatin is a dynamic chromosomal domain that can spread over non-centromeric DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:4186-4191.
  
  
• Scott, KC & Sullivan, BA (2005) Epigenetic Inheritance and RNAi at the centromere and heterochromatin. In Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Edited by Lynn Jorde (John Wiley & Sons) DOI: 10/1002/04701153X.g103322.
  
  
• Lam, A, Pazin, DE, Sullivan, BA (2005) Control of gene expression and assembly of chromosomal subdomains by chromatin regulators with antagonistic functions. Chromosoma 13:1-10.
  
  
• Sullivan, BA & Karpen, GH (2004) Centromeric chromatin displays a histone modification pattern that is distinct from both euchromatin and heterochromatin. Nat Struc Mol Biol 11:1076-1083.
  
  
• Sullivan, BA (2004) Centromeres. In Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry. (W.J. Lennarz and M.D. Lane eds), Elsevier, Oxford, Vol.1, pp. 367-371.
  
  
• Hoskins, R.A., et al. (2002) Heterochromatic sequences in a Drosophila whole-genome shotgun assembly. Genome Biol 3.85.1-85.16.
  
  
• Blower, MD, Sullivan, BA, & Karpen, GH (2002) Conserved organization of centromeric chromatin in flies and humans. Dev Cell 2:319-330.
  
  
• Sullivan, BA (2002) Centromere round-up at the heterochromatin corral. Trends Biotech 20:89-92.
• Sullivan, B & G Karpen (2001) Centromere identity in Drosophila is not determined in vivo by replication timing. J Cell Biol 154:683-690.
  
  
• Sullivan, BA, MD Blower, & GH Karpen (2001) Determination of centromere identity: cyclical stories and forking paths. Nat Rev Genet 2:584-596.
  
  
• Sullivan, BA & WA Bickmore (2000) Unusual chromosome architecture and behaviour at an HSR. Chromosoma 109:173-180.
  
  
• Sullivan, BA & PE Warburton (1999) Studying the progression of vertebrate chromosomes through mitosis by immunofluorescence and FISH. In Chromosome Structural Analysis: A Practical Approach, p 81-101, Edited by Dr. Wendy Bickmore (IRL Press).
  
  
• Sullivan, BA & HF Willard (1998) Stable dicentric X chromosomes with two functional centromeres. Nat Genet 20:227-228.