
Marjut Roponen
Professor
Toxicology of environmental exposures
Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences
marjut.roponen@uef.fi | +358 40 356 2521
My research focuses on the early-life environmental exposure, immune development and the risk of allergic diseases. I also study how climate change affects pollen allergenicity factors and the prevalence of allergic diseases in Finland. I have specialized in immunotoxicology and -epidemiology.
Research groups
Publications
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Immune Responsiveness to LPS Determines Risk of Childhood Wheeze and Asthma in 17q21 Risk Allele Carriers
Illi, S; Depner, M; Pfefferle, PI; Renz, H; Roduit, C; Taft, DH; Kalanetra, KM; Mills, DA; Farquharson, FM; Louis, P; Schmausser-Hechfellner, E; Divaret-Chauveau, A; Lauener, R; Karvonen, AM; Pekkanen, J; Kirjavainen, PV; Roponen, M; Riedler, J; Kabesch, M; Schaub, B; von Mutius, E; PASTURE Study Group. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine [in press]: -. 2022 -
Short-Term Effects of Particle Sizes and Constituents on Blood Biomarkers among Healthy Young Adults in Guangzhou, China
Feng, Dan; Cao, Ke; He, Zhi-Zhou; Knibbs, Luke D.; Jalaludin, Bin; Leskinen, Ari; Roponen, Marjut; Komppula, Mika; Jalava, Pasi; Guo, Peng-Yue; Xu, Shu-Li; Yang, Bo-Yi; Hu, Liwen; Zeng, Xiao-Wen; Chen, Gongbo; Yu, Hong-Yao; Lin, Lizi; Dong, Guanghui. Environmental science and technology 55 9: 9. 2021 -
Short-Term Effects of Particle Size and Constituents on Blood Pressure in Healthy Young Adults in Guangzhou, China
Guo, Peng-Yue; He, Zhi-Zhou; Jalaludin, Bin; Knibbs, Luke D; Leskinen, Ari; Roponen, Marjut; Komppula, Mika; Jalava, Pasi; Hu, Li-Wen; Chen, Gongbo; Zeng, Xiao-Wen; Yang, Bo-Yi; Dong, Guang-Hui. Journal of the American heart association 10 10: e019063. 2021 -
Associations of Particulate Matter Sizes and Chemical Constituents with Blood Lipids: A Panel Study in Guangzhou, China
He, Zhi-Zhou; Guo, Peng-Yue; Xu, Shu-Li; Zhou, Yang; Jalaludin, Bin; Leskinen, Ari; Knibbs, Luke D; Heinrich, Joachim; Morawska, Lidia; Yim, Steve Hung-Lam; Bui, Dinh; Komppula, Mika; Roponen, Marjut; Hu, Liwen; Chen, Gongbo; Zeng, Xiao-Wen; Yu, Yunjiang; Yang, Bo-Yi; Dong, Guanghui. Environmental science and technology 55 8: 5065-5075. 2021 -
Cell membrane coating integrity affects the internalization mechanism of biomimetic nanoparticles
Liu, Lizhi; Bai, Xuan; Martikainen, Maria-Viola; Kårlund, Anna; Roponen, Marjut; Xu, Wujun; Hu, Guoqing; Tasciotti, Ennio; Lehto, Vesa-Pekka. Nature communications 12 1: 5726. 2021 -
Toxicological and microbiological characterization of cow stable dust
Martikainen, Maria-Viola; Tossavainen, Tarleena; Täubel, Martin; Wolczkiewicz, Kirsi; Lähde, Anna; Roponen, Marjut. Toxicology in vitro 75: 105202. 2021 -
Mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling in childhood asthma development and environment-mediated protection
Theodorou, J; Nowak, E; Böck, A; Salvermoser, M; Beerweiler, C; Zeber, K; Kulig, P; Tsang, MS; Wong, CK; Wong, GWK; Roponen, M; Kumbrink, J; Alhamdan, F; Michel, F; Garn, H; Tosevski, V; Schaub, B. Pediatric allergy and immunology 2022; 33 1: e13657. 2021 -
Early age exposure to moisture and mould is related to FeNO at the age of 6 years
Tischer, Christina; Karvonen, Anne M; Kirjavainen, Pirkka V; Flexeder, Claudia; Roponen, Marjut; Hyvärinen, Anne; Renz, Harald; Frey, Urs Peter; Fuchs, Oliver; Pekkanen, Juha. Pediatric allergy and immunology 32 6: 1226-1237. 2021 -
Maturation of the gut microbiome during the first year of life contributes to the protective farm effect on childhood asthma
Depner, Martin; Taft, Diana Hazard; Kirjavainen, Pirkka V; Kalanetra, Karen M; Karvonen, Anne M; Peschel, Stefanie; Schmausser-Hechfellner, Elisabeth; Roduit, Caroline; Frei, Remo; Lauener, Roger; Divaret-Chauveau, Amandine; Dalphin, Jean-Charles; Riedler, Josef; Roponen, Marjut; Kabesch, Michael; Renz, Harald; Pekkanen, Juha; Farquharson, Freda M; Louis, Petra; Mills, David A. et al.. Nature medicine 26: 1766-1775. 2020 -
Thermal dose as a universal tool to evaluate nanoparticle-induced photothermal therapy
Happonen, Emilia; Tamarov, Konstantin; Martikainen, Maria-Viola; Ketola, Kirsi; Roponen, Marjut; Lehto, Vesa-Pekka; Xu, Wujun. International journal of pharmaceutics 587: 119657. 2020