{"id":13730,"date":"2026-03-31T21:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/?p=13730"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:56:39","slug":"jay-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/?p=13730","title":{"rendered":"Jay Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Post Doc in the BioZone at the University of Toronto, studying iron and sulfur oxidation in bioleaching processes.  I recently finished a combined MASc &amp; PhD program with the CivMin Department at the University of Toronto, where I have been very involved in growing QueerSphere, the departmental student club.<\/p>\n<p>I graduated with a BSc. in environmental science at UTSC in 2011. Before grad studies I worked in the urban forestry renewal department at the City of Toronto, planting native trees and working to restore habitat in the urban centre. In my spare time, I read sci-fi (queer if possible), volunteer, and occasionally paint with oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am Post Doc in the BioZone at the University of Toronto, studying iron and sulfur oxidation in bioleaching processes. I recently finished a combined MASc &amp; PhD program with the CivMin Department at the University of Toronto, where I have been very involved in growing QueerSphere, the departmental student club. I graduated with a&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/?p=13730\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"location":[174],"class_list":["post-13730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biochemistry","location-toronto-ontario"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flocation&post=13730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}