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Effat Zeidan Hatoum, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Director, Master's in Interdisciplinary Studies program (Online)

Office Phone: (951) 552-8453
E-mail: ezeidan@calbaptist.edu
Office Location: Mission Hall, 103
Office Hours: Call to Make an Appointment

Degree Major Emphasis Institution Year
Ph.D. NanoScience University of North Carolina at Greensboro 2016
B.S. Chemistry American University of Beirut 2012
  • Courses Taught

    BIO153 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I
    BIO143 - Principles of Biology
    BIO143L - Principles of Biology Lab
    CHE102 - Fundamentals of Chemistry
    MAT095 - Elementary Algebra
    MAT115 - Intermediate Algebra
    MAT123 - Survey of Mathematics
    ENV151- Introduction to the Geosciences
    ENC151L- Introduction to the Geosciences Lab
    IDS 498- Interdisciplinary Studies Capstone
    IDS500- Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies
    IDS 599- Integrative Capstone

  • Academic Areas & Scholarly Interests

    Chemical Biology
    Science at the Nanoscale
    The dialogue between Science and Faith
    Motivational Learning
    Integration of Faith to science learning

  • Teaching Experience at Institutions Other than CBU

    NanoChemistry Laboratory
    Fundamentals of Chemistry
    General Chemistry
    Intermediate Algebra

  • Research, Presentations, & Publications

    Research and Publications:
    Vance, S. A., Zeidan, E., Williams, L. B., Starobin, J. M., & Sandros, M. G. (2013). An Easy Method To Synthesize Carbon-Coated Quantum Dots. Nano LIFE, 03(01), 1340006.
    Zeidan E, Vance S, Sandros MG (2014) Current nanodelivery systems for imaging and therapeutics. In: Kelkar AD, Herr DJC, Ryan JG (ed) Nanoscience and nanoengineering: advances and applications. CRC press, Boca Raton, pp 113- 130.
    Zeidan, E., Kepley, C. L., Sayes, C., & Sandros, M. G. (2015). Surface plasmon resonance: a label-free tool for cellular analysis. Nanomedicine, 10(11), 1833-1846.
    Vance, S.*, Zeidan, E.*, Henrich, V. C., & Sandros, M. G. (2016). Comparative Analysis of Human Growth Hormone in Serum Using SPRi, Nano-SPRi and ELISA Assays. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (107).
    Zeidan, E., Li, S., Zhou, Z., Miller, J., & Sandros, M. G. (2016). Single-Multiplex Detection of Organ Injury Biomarkers using SPRi based Nano-Immunosensor. Scientific Reports, 6, 36348.
    Zeidan, E., Shivaji, R., Henrich, V. C., & Sandros, M. G. (2016). Nano-SPRi Aptasensor for the Detection of Progesterone in Buffer. Scientific Reports, 6, 26714.

    Oral Presentations:
    Zeidan, E. and Sandros, M.G. “In Vitro Assessment of Nanomaterials Cytotoxicity Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging”- The Great Scientific Expo, SciX presented by FACCS. Reno, Nevada. September, 2014

    Poster Presentations:
    Vance, S. A., Zeidan, E., Williams, L. B., Starobin, J. M., & Sandros, M. G. “An easy method to synthesize carbon-coated quantum dots”.
    Nanomanufacturing Conference, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering-UNCG. Greensboro, NC. September, 2013.
    CNC-ACS 14th Annual Poster Night, Syngenta. Greensboro, NC. April, 2014
    1st Electronic Conference on Materials. May, 2014.

    Vance, S.*, Zeidan, E.*, Henrich, V. C., & Sandros, M. G. “Measuring Human Growth Hormone levels using a NanoSPRi Platform”
    CNC-ACS 15th Annual Poster Night, Syngenta. Greensboro, NC. April, 2015

  • Church Membership & Activities

    Sandals Church

  • Community Service & Involvement

    American Scientific Affiliation (ASA)
    Christian Women in Science (CWiS)
    Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS)

  • Personal Philosophy

    “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” ~ Khalil Gibran