{"id":22,"date":"2016-06-14T15:02:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2021-09-22T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:31:41","slug":"main-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Research Web Page of <a href=\"mailto:edheist@siu.edu\">Dr. Ed Heist<\/a> at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43\" src=\"http:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Ed-Sturgeon-03-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Ed-Sturgeon-03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Ed-Sturgeon-03-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Ed-Sturgeon-03-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Ed-Sturgeon-03-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Heist with hybrid sturgeon captured in Mississisppi River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Heist is a professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/zoology.siu.edu\/\">Department of Zoology<\/a> and is the Associate Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/fisheries.siu.edu\/\">Center for Fisheries, Aquaculture, &amp; Aquatic Sciences<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/siu.edu\/\">Southern Illinois University Carbondale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Heist&#8217;s graduate programs trains MS and Ph.D. students for careers that include working with state and federal agencies as well as academic positions. \u00a0If you are interested in graduate school working with Dr. Heist please email him <a href=\"mailto: edheist@siu.edu\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Heist is a Conservation Geneticist who works mostly with fishes, including catfish, minnows, sturgeons, and paddlefish. \u00a0Past student projects have also included studies of sharks, bobcats, swamp rabbits, quail, and pine bark beetles.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Heist has a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vims.edu\/\">Virginia Institute of Marine Science<\/a> and teaches a Marine Biology course (Zoology 385 &#8211; Introduction to Marine Biology). \u00a0The course includes a 5-day field trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/gcrl.usm.edu\/\">Gulf Coast Research Laboratory<\/a> in Ocean Springs Mississippi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Research Web Page of Dr. Ed Heist at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dr. Heist is a professor in the Department of Zoology and is the Associate Director of the Center for Fisheries, Aquaculture, &amp; Aquatic Sciences at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Dr. Heist&#8217;s graduate programs trains MS and Ph.D. students for careers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Main Page&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservationgenetics.siu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}