Jean-Michel Ané

5303 Microbial Sciences Building
Departments of Bacteriology and Agronomy
1550 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
USA
Office: 608-262-6457
Lab:     608-890-0155

"L'important ce n'est pas de dépasser les autres, c'est de se dépasser grâce aux autres." Pr. Albert Jacquard, French Geneticist

Education
B.S.       University of Lyon (France)            Molecular and Cellular Biology                1995
M.S.      University of Toulouse (France)      Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology        1997
Ph.D.     University of Toulouse (France)      Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology        2002​

Professional Experience
2014-present    Full Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2010-2014       Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
2004-2010       Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2002-2004       Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis
1998-2002       Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Toulouse

Patents
  • Ané JM, Wiley-Kalil A, Maeda J. Chitin Oligomers for use in promoting non-leguminous plant growth and development. Patent pending.
  • Ané JM, Kiss GB, Penmetsa RV, Dénarié J, Cook DR. A gene controlling the establishment of rhizobial and mycorrhizal symbioses, United States Patent Application Publication No. 20050081262 published April 14, 2005.​

Honors and Awards
2015, Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award
2014, Rothermel Bascom professorship of Agronomy
2009, Honored Instructors Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1997, 'Agrégation'and CAPET in Biochemistry, Microbiology and Physiology, French National Education, Competitive Entry in the French National Education System for permanent teaching positions.
1996-1993, ENS-Lyon fellow, French National Education, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Funding
National Science Foundation (NSF) -Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
National Science Foundation (NSF) - Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Hatch
Department of Energy (DOE)
Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board (WSMB)
Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN)
John Innes Centre (JIC) - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
University of California Davis - Mars Inc.

Professional Activities  
  • Member of the organizing committee for the 6th International Symbiosis Society (6-ISS) conference.
  • Member of the UW Madison Symbiosis Cluster steering committee.
  • Associate Chair of the Agronomy Department. Chair of the Building Committee.
  • Member of the Research Advisory Committee for the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
  • Panel member for the USDA-NRI Biology of Plant-Microbe Associations (2006), the NSF-GRFP (2007) Panel member for the USDA-NRI Biology of Plant-Microbe Associations (2006), the NSF-GRFP (2007) and the US Department of Energy (2009).
  • Grant proposal reviewer for the US National Science Foundation (NSF-IOS and NSF-MCB), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the US Department of Energy (DOE BER, BES and GLBRC), the University of Wisconsin Madison Graduate School, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Earth and Life Sciences section), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the “Fonds de Recherche du Quebec Nature et Technologies” (FRQNT), the European Research Council (ERC), the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Danish Council for Independent Research, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
  • Associate Editor for Frontiers in Plant Sciences and Frontiers in Microbiology.
  • Article reviewer for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS), Trends in Plant Sciences, Trends in Cell Biology, The Plant Cell, Annals of Botany, FEBS letters, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI), New Phytologist, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, The Plant Journal, Plant Physiology, Plant Science, Plant and Soil, Plant Cell and Environment, Plant Cell and Physiology, Physiologia Plantarum, BioMed Central Plant Biology, BioMed Central Biology, Genetics, Symbiosis, Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, and Wiley Editions.
  • Outreach activities for the Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board, the Wisconsin Crop Improvement Association, the Family Horticulture day, the Science Expeditions, Darwin day, Martin Luther King Day of Service, the French-American Science Festival (Chicago), Middle School Science Symposium, and the Madison Children’s Museum.

Teaching and Training
  • Teaches every fall semester a course on Plant Biotechnology Principles and Techniques (AGRONOMY / HORTICULTURE / BOTANY 339) including two 3-hour laboratory sessions and two 75-minute lectures per week.
  • Taught graduate student seminars (AGRONOMY / HORTICULTURE 957) in 2005 and 2011. Is currently teaching AGRONOMY 920 / HORTICULTURE 910 (spring 2014).
  • Invited lectures / presentations on plant – microbe symbioses for BIOCHEMISTRY/BOTANY/GENETICS 840 in 20014 and 2006, MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY 677 in 2005 and 2007, BOTANY/HORTICULTURE/SOIL SCIENCES 626 in 2006, PLANT PATHOLOGY 505 in 2007, MICROBIOLOGY/ONCOLOGY 545 in 2009, MICROBIOLOGY 710 in 2009, BOTANY 860 in 2010, BIOLOGY 150 (Ways of Knowing Biology) 20074-2009, and the Annual University of Wisconsin Conference on Interdisciplinarity in 2007.
  • Graduate training: affiliation to the interdepartmental Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics (PBPG), the interdepartmental Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB), the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program (MDTP), the Biotechnology Training Program (BTP), the Genetics Ph.D. training program and the Plant Pathology graduate programs for which he gives lectures on plant-microbe symbiotic associations.
  • Member of the Microbiology Doctoral Training Program steering committee in 2010.
  • Undergraduate training through Summer Research Programs (Symbiosis SRP and Plant Biology SRP) which offers training and research experience to undergraduate students of underrepresented groups. These students are generally coming from other universities. Training of UW Madison undergraduate students doing directed studies, honor thesis or affiliated to the Undergraduate Research Scholars (URS) program.

Membership Information
​American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Wisconsin Soybean Association
International Symbiosis Society (ISS)
International Society of Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Media Appearances
Woolston C. Mathematical model helps scientists decide where to submit their papers. Nature. Research Highlights. January 29, 2015.
Tenenbaum D. A touching story: Ancient conversation between plants, fungi and bacteria. ScienceDaily. August 27, 2014.
Ayre J. Conversations Between Plants, Bacteria, And Fungi Explored By New Research. PlanetSave Newsletter. August 31, 2014.
Kampa D. Electronic Lab Notebooks to be made available to researchers. The Daily Cardinal.September 24, 2014.
Carpenter S. Must a Paper Trail Be Paper? Science. Science Carreers. September 14, 2012.
Perdue S. Microbes play a big role for Wisconsin. Journal Sentinel. August 23, 2010.

Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors
Jean Dénarié and Charles Rosenberg (Ph.D.  Advisors, INRA Toulouse, France)
Douglas Cook (Postdoctoral Advisor, University of California Davis)

Postdoctoral advisees
3 current post-docs
  • Devanshi Khokhani (January 2018 – present)
  • Lucas Gontijo Silva Maia (January 2018 – present)
  • Thomas Irving (December 2017 – present)
11 former post-docs
  • Ray Collier (August 2016 – November 2017) – Now Molecular Services Department Research Manager at the Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center
  • Kevin Garcia (January 2014 – September 2017) – Now postdoc at South Dakota State University
  • Matthew Crook (January 2012 – June 2017) – Now Assistant Professor at Weber State University
  • Angel R. Del Valle-Echevarria (January 2015 – December 2015) – Now a postdoc at the University of Hawaii.
  • Dhileepkumar Jayaraman (August 2013 – December 2014) – Now Assistant Scientist in my lab.
  • Pierre-Marc Delaux (November 2011 - November 2014) - Now Researcher (Chargé de Recherches, CR2) at Centre de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France.
  • Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran (April 2010 – August 2013) - Now Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville.
  • Oswaldo Valdés-López (November 2012 - July 2013) Now Associate Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
  • Arijit Mukherjee (January 2008 – July 2012) - Now Assistant Professor at the University of Central Arkansas.
  • Désirée Den Os (January 2008 – April 2010) - Now Lecturer Molecular, Plant, Biology at Hanzehogeschool Groningen / Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, Netherlands.
  • Kannan Iyyemperumal (September 2005 – September 2006) - Now working for Applied Biotech Industries Inc.

Thesis Advisees and Co-advisees
7 current Ph.D. students and 2 current M.S. students:
  • Kevin Cope (Ph.D. expected in 2018, Cellular and Molecular Biology, UW-Madison)
  • Marian Lund (Ph.D. expected in 2019, Plant Pathology, UW-Madison)
  • Shane Bernard (Ph.D. expected in 2019, Cellular and Molecular Biology, UW-Madison)
  • Michelle Keller (Ph.D. expected in 2019, co-advised with Dr. Erin Silva, Cellular and Molecular Biology, UW-Madison)
  • Anthony Bortolazzo (Ph.D. expected in 2019, Genetics, UW-Madison)
  • Zachary Keiser (Ph.D. expected in 2020, Plant Pathology, UW-Madison)
  • Tomás Rush (Ph.D. expected in 2020, Plant Pathology, UW-Madison)
  • Emmeline Fung (M.S expected in 2018, Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, UW-Madison)
  • Lindsay Chamberlain (M.S. expected in 2020, Agronomy, UW-Madison)
7 former Ph.D. students and 2 former M.S. students:
  • David Marburger (Ph.D. completed in February 2016, co-advised with Dr. Shawn Conley, Agronomy, UW-Madison). Now Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University
  • Audrey Wiley-Kalil (Ph.D. completed in May 2015) (Plant Pathology, UW-Madison). Now USDA Plant Pathologist at Williston Research Extension Center.
  • Kari Forshey (M.S. completed in June 2012, Genetics, UW-Madison). Now Academic Editor at American Journal Experts.
  • Dhileepkumar Jayaraman (Ph.D. completed in May 2011) (Plant Breeding Plant Genetics, UW-Madison). Now Assistant Scientist in my laboratory.
  • Li Huey Yeun (Ph.D. completed in May 2011) (Plant Breeding Plant Genetics, UW-Madison).
  • Branden Furseth (M.S. completed in January 2011, co-advised with Dr. Shawn Conley) (Agronomy, UW-Madison). Now at Dow AgroSciences.
  • Muthusubramanian Venkateshwaran (Ph.D. completed in March 2010) (Plant Pathology, UW-Madison). Now Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville.
  • Géraldine Lougnon (Ph.D. completed in May 2007, University of Paris XI, France)
  • Elsa Messinese (Ph.D. completed in May 2007, University of Toulouse, France). Now biology teacher in Toulouse, France.

Language Skills
English and French

Other Interests
Family, camping, backpacking, outdoors