Vincent Boudreau was selected by the Biology Department’s faculty, student and post-docs to give this year’s Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology graduate student talk during the department’s annual research symposium. His talk, discussing several aspects of the final steps of the cell cycle including how chromosomes decondense, how the nuclear envelope is assembled, and how nuclear import is activated, was entitled “Timely exit from mitosis requires the reactivation of nucleocytoplasmic trafficking.