Dr Janneke Balk is a Synergy Reader. Her laboratory is based at the John Innes Centre.

2013 - Reader, UEA/BIO and Project Leader, John Innes Centre

2011 – 2013 Lecturer and Royal Society URF, UEA/BIO and John Innes Centre

2005 – 2011 Royal Society University Research Fellow , University of Cambridge (Plant Sciences)

2002 – 2004 Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Marburg, Germany

1999 – 2002 Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford (Lincoln College)

1996 – 1999 D.Phil. in Biological Sciences, University of Oxford (St John’s College)

1990 – 1996 B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Ozer, H. K., Dlouhy, A. C., Thornton, J. D., Hu, J., Liu, Y., Barycki, J. J., Balk, J., Outten, C. E.(2015)Cytosolic Fe-S Cluster Protein Maturation and Iron Regulation Are Independent of the Mitochondrial Erv1/Mia40 Import Systemin Journal of Biological Chemistry290.pp. 27829-27840 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Schaedler, T. A., Faust, B., Shintre, C., Carpenter, E. P., Srinivasan, V., van Veen, H. W., Balk, J.(2015)Structures and functions of mitochondrial ABC transportersin Biochemical Society Transactions43.pp. 943-951 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Knuesting, J., Riondet, C., Maria, C., Kruse, I., Bécuwe, N., König, N., Berndt, C., Tourrette, S., Guilleminot-Montoya, J., Herrero, E., Gaymard, F., Balk, J., Belli, G., Scheibe, R., Reichheld, J., Rouhier, N., Rey, P.(2015)Arabidopsis glutaredoxin S17 and its partner, the nuclear factor Y subunit C11/negative cofactor 2α, contribute to maintenance of the shoot apical meristem under long-day photoperiodin Plant Physiology167.pp. 1643-1658 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Balk, J., Schaedler, T. A.(2014)Iron cofactor assembly in plantsin Annual Review of Plant Biology65.pp. 125-153 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Borrill, P., Connorton, J. M., Balk, J., Miller, A. J., Sanders, D., Uauy, C.(2014)Biofortification of wheat grain with iron and zinc: Integrating novel genomic resources and knowledge from model cropsin Frontiers in Plant Science5. Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Krüssel, L., Junemann, J., Wirtz, M., Birke, H., Thornton, J. D., Browning, L. W., Poschet, G., Hell, R., Balk, J., Braun, H., Hildebrandt, T.(2014)The mitochondrial sulfur dioxygenase ETHE1 is required for amino acid catabolism during carbohydrate starvation and embryo development in Arabidopsis thalianain Plant Physiology165.pp. 92-104 UEA Repository(Article) Schaedler, T. A., Thornton, J. D., Kruse, I., Schwarzländer, M., Meyer, A. J., van Veen, H. W., Balk, J.(2014)A conserved mitochondrial ATP-binding cassette transporter exports glutathione polysulfide for cytosolic metal cofactor assemblyin Journal of Biological Chemistry289.pp. 23264-23274 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Hooks, M. M., Allwood, J. W., Harrison, J. K., Kopka, J., Erban, A., Goodacre, R., Balk, J.(2014)Selective induction and subcellular distribution of ACONITASE 3 reveal the importance of cytosolic citrate metabolism during lipid mobilization in Arabidopsisin Biochemical Journal463.pp. 309–317 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Bernard, D., Netz, D., Lagny, T., Pierik, A., Balk, J.(2013)Requirements of the cytosolic iron-sulphur cluster assembly pathway in Arabidopsisin Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences368. Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Wydro, M., Balk, J.(2013)Insights into the pathogenic character of a commonin Disease Models & Mechanisms6.pp. 1279-1284 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Wydro, M. M., Sharma, P., Foster, J. M., Bych, K., Meyer, E. H., Balk, J.(2013)The evolutionarily conserved iron-sulfur protein INDH is required for complex I assembly and mitochondrial translation in Arabidopsis.in The Plant Cell25.pp. 4014-4027 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Birke, H., Haas, F., De Kok, L., Balk, J., Wirtz, M., Hell, R.(2012)Cysteine biosynthesis, in concert with a novel mechanism, contributes to sulfide detoxification in mitochondria of Arabidopsis thalianain Biochemistry445.pp. 275-283 UEA Repository(Article) Luo, D., Bernard, D., Balk, J., Hai, H., Cui, X.(2012)The DUF59 family gene AE7 acts in the cytosolic iron-sulfur cluster assembly pathway to maintain nuclear genome integrity in Arabidopsisin The Plant Cell24.pp. 4135-4148 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Balk, J., Pilon, M.(2011)Ancient and essential: the assembly of iron–sulfur clusters in plantsin Trends in Plant Science16.pp. 218-226 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Godman, J., Molnár, A., Baulcombe, D., Balk, J.(2010)RNA silencing of hydrogenase(-like) genes and investigation of their physiological roles in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiin Biochemical Journalpp. 345-351 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Teschner, J., Lachmann, N., Schulze, J., Geisler, M., Selbach, K., Santamaria-Araujo, J., Balk, J., Mendel, R. R., Bittner, F.(2010)A Novel Role for Arabidopsis Mitochondrial ABC Transporter ATM3 in Molybdenum Cofactor Biosynthesisin The Plant Cell22.pp. 468-480 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Bernard, D., Cheng, Y., Zhao, Y., Balk, J.(2009)An Allelic Mutant Series of ATM3 Reveals Its Key Role in the Biogenesis of Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Proteins in Arabidopsisin Plant Physiology151.pp. 590-602 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Sheftel, A., Stehling, O., Pierik, A., Netz, D., Kerscher, S., Elsasser, H., Wittig, I., Balk, J., Brandt, U., Lill, R.(2009)Human Ind1, an Iron-Sulfur Cluster Assembly Factor for Respiratory Complex Iin Molecular and Cellular Biology29.pp. 6059-6073 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Bych, K., Netz, D., Vigani, G., Bill, E., Lill, R., Pierik, A., Balk, J.(2008)The Essential Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Protein Nbp35 Acts without Cfd1 Partner in the Green Lineagein Journal of Biological Chemistry283.pp. 35797-35804 Full Text UEA Repository(Article) Godman, J., Balk, J.(2008)Genome Analysis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Reveals The Existence of Multiple, Compartmentalized Iron-Sulfur Protein Assembly Machineries of Different Evolutionary Originsin Genetics179.pp. 59-68 Full Text UEA Repository(Article)