Professor of Radiology, University of Manitoba
Adjunct Scientist: TRLabs
Scientist, Manitoba Institute of Child Health
Organizer, Books With Wings (http://www.bookswithwings.ca)

1967 PhD Chemical Physics (Terrell L. Hill), University of Oregon
1963 BSc Mathematics, University of Chicago

embryogenesis and its evolution, origin of life; Monte Carlo simulation; diatom motility, morphogenesis and nanotechnology; algal biofuel; phytoliths; computed tomography, especially for early detection of breast cancer; halting the HIV/AIDS epidemic; science & religion

William R. Buckley, in process of applying as PhD student, to work on chromolinkers
Bruce Damer, PhD Student, School of Computing & Technology, East London University

Gordon, R., L. Stillwaggon Swan & J. Seckbach, Eds. (2011). Origin of Design [in preparation]. Dordrecht, Springer.

Seckbach, J. & R. Gordon, Eds. (2010). Genesis: Origin of Life on Earth and Planets [in preparation]. Dordrecht, Springer.

Gordon, R. & J. Seckbach, Eds. (2010). The Science of Algal Fuels: Phycology, Geology, Biophotonics, Genomics and Nanotechnology [in preparation]. Dordrecht, Springer.

Gordon, R., S.M. Levin, D. Mietchen & W.R. Buckley (2010). The worldwide Embryo Physics Course in the virtual world Second Life® [Invited]. Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, in preparation.

Gordon, R. (2010). Epilogue: the diseased breast lobe in the context of X-chromosome inactivation and differentiation waves [invited]. In: Breast Cancer: A Lobar Disease. Eds.: T. Tot, Springer.

Gordon, R. (2010). Stop breast cancer now! Imagining imaging pathways towards search, destroy, cure and watchful waiting of premetastasis breast cancer [invited]. In: Breast Cancer - A Lobar Disease. Eds.: T. Tot, Springer.

Gordon, R. (2010). Diatoms and nanotechnology: early history and imagined future as seen through patents [Invited]. In: The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences. Eds.: J.P. Smol & E.F. Stoermer. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Smith?, R.J. & R. Gordon (2009). The OptAIDS project: towards global halting of HIV/AIDS [Preface]. BMC Public Health 9(Suppl. 1: OptAIDS Special Issue), S1 (5 pages).

Ramachandra, T.V., D.M. Mahapatra, Karthick B. & R. Gordon (2009). Milking diatoms for sustainable energy: biochemical engineering versus gasoline-secreting diatom solar panels [invited]. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 48(19, Complex Materials II special issue, October), 8769-8788.

Neethirajan, S., R. Gordon & L. Wang (2009). Potential of silica bodies (phytoliths) for nanotechnology [invited]. Trends in Biotechnology 27(8), 461-467.

Gordon, R. & J.E. Westfall (2009). Google Embryo for building quantitative understanding of an embryo as it builds itself: I. Lessons from Ganymede and Google Earth. Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition 4(4), in press.

Gordon, R. & B.J. Poulin (2009). Cost of the NSERC science grant peer review system exceeds the cost of giving every qualified researcher a baseline grant. Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance 16(1), 1-28.

Gordon, R., D. Losic, M.A. Tiffany, S.S. Nagy & F.A.S. Sterrenburg (2009). The Glass Menagerie: diatoms for novel applications in nanotechnology [invited]. Trends in Biotechnology 27(2), 116-127.

Gordon, R. (2009). Google Embryo. Building Quantitative Understanding of an Embryo as it Builds Itself: Lessons from Ganymede and Google Earth [PowerPoint presentation]. In: Medical and Health Technology Session, 25th Think Conference, 6-8 November 2009, Santa Cruz. Eds.: L. Branagan.

Seckbach, J. & R. Gordon, Eds. (2008). Divine Action and Natural Selection: Science, Faith and Evolution. Singapore, World Scientific http://www.worldscibooks.com/lifesci/6998.html.

Nouri, C., R. Luppes, A.E.P. Veldman, J.A. Tuszynski & R. Gordon (2008). Rayleigh instability of the inverted one-cell amphibian embryo [Invited: "Physical Aspects of Developmental Biology" special issue, Guest Editor Shane Hutson, Vanderbilt University]. Physical Biology 5(1), 015006.