Graduate Student Email: patrick.smallwood25@uga.edu Lab: 3503 Miller Plant Sciences Office: 3503 Miller Plant Sciences Research Research Areas: Ecology & Global Change Evolutionary Biology Fungal Biology Research Interests: I am interested in orchids. Specifically the seemingly paradoxical observation of individuals being able to produce 10,000s - 100,000s of wind dispersed seeds in a single fruit, yet many terrestrial populations are often small and highly fragmented across the landscape. Focal questions include what limits recruitment within populations, what limits the ranges of orchid species, to what degree are populations connected through geneflow, and what are the historic patterns of migration. On a more broad level I am interested in how environmental factors limit migration and ranges within plant species. Grants: 2019 Orchid Society of America 2019 Marie Mellinger Grant awarded by Georgia Botanical Society 2018 Catherine H. Beattie Fellowship awarded by Garden Club of America Dissertation/Thesis Title: Phylogeography of Cypripedium acaule (Orchidaceae) across its Eastern Range and the Role of Mycorrhizal Symbionts Education Education: 2016 Admission to the PhD Program in the Plant Biology Department at the University of Georgia 2014 B.S. General Biology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville GA
