Maarit Karonen
PhD, Senior Lecturer, Docent, Adjunct Professor
Natural Chemistry Research Group maarit.karonen@utu.fi +358 29 450 3179 +358 50 576 5007 Office: D507 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9964-6527 |
Areas of expertise
Interactions, liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, natural compounds, NMR spectroscopy, phenolic compounds, polyphenols, tannins
Interactions, liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, natural compounds, NMR spectroscopy, phenolic compounds, polyphenols, tannins
Research
- Chemistry of tannins and polyphenols
- Qualitative and quantitative analyses of tannins and polyphenols
- Role and significance of tannins on ruminant health and greenhouse gas emissions
- Role of tannins in forest ecosystems and their potential for sustainable utilization in the future
- Tannin-macromolecules interactions
Teaching
- Book Exams of Natural Compound Chemistry
- Identification of Bioactives by UV, MS and MS/MS Spectra
- LC-MS and its Applications
- Scientific Communication of Chemistry
- Structure, Activity and Quantitation Methods
Publications 
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- Interactions of Galloylated Polyphenols with a Simple Gram-Negative Bacterial Membrane Lipid Model (2024)
- Membranes
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Affinity of Tannins to Cellulose: A Chromatographic Tool for Revealing Structure-Activity Patterns (2023)
- Molecules
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Alkaline oxidization can increase the in vitro antiparasitic activity of proanthocyanidin-rich plant extracts against Ascaris suum (2023)
- Experimental Parasitology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Inspired by nature: Fiber networks functionalized with tannic acid and condensed tannin-rich extracts of Norway spruce bark show antimicrobial efficacy (2023)
- Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - NMR Metabolomics and DNA Sequencing of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus Cultures Treated with Hydrolyzable Tannins (2023)
- Metabolites
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Red Wine Inspired Chemistry: Hemisynthesis of Procyanidin Analogs and Determination of Their Protein Precipitation Capacity, Octanol-Water Partition, and Stability in Phosphate-Buffered Saline (2023)
- Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tannins Can Have Direct Interactions with Anthelmintics: Investigations by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (2023)
- Molecules
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Willow (Salix spp.) bark hot water extracts inhibit both enveloped and non-enveloped viruses: study on its anti-coronavirus and anti-enterovirus activities (2023)
- Frontiers in microbiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Chemotaxonomic Markers for the Leaf Buds of Common Finnish Trees and Shrubs: A Rapid UHPLC MS Fingerprinting Tool for Species Identification (2022)
- Molecules
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Identification of Oxindoleacetic Acid Conjugates in Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) Seeds by High-Resolution UHPLC-MS/MS (2022)
- Molecules
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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