About Scott

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title: Scott W Harden, DMD, PhD
description: About Scott W Harden, DMD, PhD
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# About Scott

**I'm Scott W Harden, and this is my personal website.** I use this space to share personal projects I work on and as a place to aggregate notes and documentation I collect along the way. My formal education is in molecular biology, dentistry, and neuroscience, but I am passionate about computer programming and electrical engineering.

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## Contact

* **Scott W Harden, DMD, PhD**

* [**swharden@gmail.com**](mailto:swharden@gmail.com)

* [**Harden Technologies, LLC**](https://tech.swharden.com/)

## Links

* [**YouTube**](https://www.youtube.com/SWHarden)

* [**GitHub**](https://github.com/swharden)

* [**Google Scholar**](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=egCaj-AAAAAJ&hl=en)

## Education

* **Associate of Science (AS)**<br>_Biology_

* **Bachelor of Science (BS)**<br>_Zoology major, Chemistry minor_

* **Master of Science (MS)**<br>_Molecular Biology and Microbiology (biotechnology)_<br>University of Central Florida

* **Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD)**<br>_Dental School_<br>University of Florida College of Dentistry

* **Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)**<br>_Biomedical Science - Neuroscience concentration_<br>University of Florida College of Medicine

## Career

* **I currently work as a biological research scientist in a neuroscience laboratory.** My recent work investigates the cellular neurophysiology of hormonal signaling in the brain using a combination of patch-clamp electrophysiology, optogenetics, and two-photon imaging.

* **I offer custom hardware and software development** operating as [Harden Technologies, LLC](https://swharden.com/tech/).

* **Although I am a dentist, I do not currently treat patients.**

## Notable Projects

_The best way to see what I've been up to lately is to [check out my GitHub](https://github.com/swharden)_

* [**ScottPlot**](https://swharden.com/scottplot/) - a .NET library for creating interactive plots of large datasets

* [**pyABF**](https://swharden.com/pyabf/) - a Python interface for Axon Binary Format (ABF) electrophysiology files

* [**FftSharp**](https://github.com/swharden/FftSharp) - a collection of fast Fourier transform (FFT) tools for .NET

* [**Spectrogram**](https://github.com/swharden/Spectrogram) - a .NET library for creating spectrograms

* [**LJPcalc**](https://swharden.com/software/LJPcalc/) - liquid junction potential (LJP) calculator

* [**NernstCalc**](https://swharden.com/software/NernstCalc) - Nernst Potential calculator for electrophysiology

* [**USB Frequency Counter**](https://github.com/swharden/USB-Counter) - a VHF frequency counter with USB interface

* [**QRSS Hardware**](https://github.com/swharden/QRSS-hardware) - designs and experiments involving ultra narrowband, low-power, long-distance, slow-speed radio.

* [**Sound Card ECG**](https://github.com/swharden/SoundCardECG) - a surprisingly good ECG using the sound card

* [**md2html-php**](https://github.com/swharden/md2html-php) - dynamic generation of websites from folders of markdown files

* [**FSKview**](https://swharden.com/software/FSKview/) - high-resolution spectrogram for viewing narrowband frequency-shift keyed (FSK) signals in real time

* [**QRSS Plus**](https://swharden.com/qrss/plus/) - automatically-updating QRSS grabber list

* [**pyHH**](https://github.com/swharden/pyHH) - a Hodgkin-Huxley simulator for Python

* [**HHSharp**](https://github.com/swharden/HHSharp) - a Hodgkin-Huxley simulator written in C#/.NET

## Medical Updates

**I was diagnosed with cancer** in 2012 ([peripheral T-cell lymphoma](https://lymphoma.org/aboutlymphoma/nhl/ptcl/)) and began treatments in 2018 including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and an autologous bone marrow transplant. My medical updates are chronicled on [swharden.com/med](https://www.swharden.com/med/)

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As of the time of writing (early 2021) I am still doing well, but the future of my disease remains somewhat uncertain. If this website hasn't been updated in a while, you can verify that I'm doing well by seeing [recent activity on GitHub](https://github.com/swharden).