Staff Profile

Introduction

I have worked for the University since 1991, in the fields of health and nutrition. Mainly involved in human intervention studies, but also in tissue culture experiments and the resulting laboratory analysis including use of HPLC, GC, GC-MS, Pentra automated spectrophotometer, qPCR, Elementar Macro CUBE and ELISA.

I am now SAgE Faculty Analytical Facilities Manager, overseeing the Faculty Nexus, Powder and Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction, SEM and Transient Absorption Spectroscopy and Microscopy facilities and SNES's Chemical and Environmental mass spectrometry facilities and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility.

Qualifications

BSc Hons Applied Chemistry

MBA 

• Wesnes KA, Brooker H, Watson AW, Bal W, Okello E. Effects of the Red Bull Energy Drink on cognitive function and mood in healthy young volunteers. Journal of Psychopharmacology 2017, 31(2), 211-221.
• Williams EA, Welfare M, Spiers A, Hill MH, Bal W, Gibney ER, Duckworth Y, Powers HJ, Mathers JC. Systemic folate status, rectal mucosal folate concentration and dietary intake in patients at differential risk of bowel cancer (The FAB2 Study). European Journal of Nutrition 2013, 52(7), 1801-1810.
• Haldar S, Beckmann M, Bal W, Fawcett L, Ross A, Brandt K, Draper J, Seal C. Biomarkers of whole-grain intake: contribution of alkylresorcinols and mammalian lignans to the metabolome. London, UK: Food Standards Agency, 2010. N05075.
• Powers HJ, Hill MH, Welfare M, Spiers A, Bal W, Russell J, Duckworth Y, Gibney E, Williams EA, Mathers JC. Responses of biomarkers of folate and riboflavin status to folate and riboflavin supplementation in healthy and colorectal polyp patients (the FAB2 study). Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 2007, 16(10), 2128-2135.
• Coxhead JM, Bal W, Williams EA, Mathers JC. Reactive oxygen species generation in mismatch repair-proficient and -deficient colorectal cancer cell lines exposed to butyrate. In: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 2006, Aberdeen, Scotland: Cambridge University Press.
• Coxhead JM, Bal W, Shenton BK, Williams EA, Mathers JC. Effect of butyrate on induction of aneuploidy in colorectal carcinoma cell lines. In: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 2005, University of East Anglia, Norwich: Cambridge University Press.
• Ells LJ, Seal CJ, Kettlitz B, Bal W, Mathers JC. Postprandial glycaemic, lipaemic and haemostatic responses in ingestion of rapidly and slowly digested starches in healthy young women. British Journal of Nutrition 2005, 94(6), 948-955.
• Seal CJ, Daly ME, Thomas LC, Bal W, Birkett AM, Jeffcoat R, Mathers JC. Postprandial carbohydrate metabolism in healthy subjects and those with type 2 diabetes fed starches with slow and rapid hydrolysis rates determined in vitro. British Journal of Nutrition 2003, 90(5), 853-864.
• Li L, Lietz G, Bal W, Watson A, Morfey B, Seal C. Effects of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) Consumption on markers of CVD risk. Nutrients 2018, 10(6), 777.