{"id":13490,"date":"2023-03-23T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=13490"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:52:02","slug":"jacinta-kong","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jacinta-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacinta Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"current-research\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Current Research<\/span><span style=\"color: black;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"elementtoproof\">I am a physiological ecologist interested in understanding how animals interact with their physical environment, and the consequences for how and where they live. My current project funded by an NSERC-Mitacs Alliance looks at how diet and temperature affect insect growth, development and survival, and how to apply this knowledge&nbsp;to improve edible insect farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15111,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jacinta","cu_people_last_name":"Kong","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[26],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-13490","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-postdocs"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Postdoctoral Fellow","cu_people_degree":"B.Sc. Zoology, Ecology (University of Queensland, Australia), Ph.D. Zoology (University of Melbourne, Australia)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"JacintaKong@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"https:\/\/jacintak.github.io\/","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/13490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/13490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16983,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/13490\/revisions\/16983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=13490"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=13490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}