Upcoming Conferences

American Society of Microbiology. ASM Microbe. Atlanta, June 13-17, 2024

1. ABSTRACT TITLE, 4600. “Extending Clinical Microbiology Service Into the Emerging ‘Microbiome First Medicine’ Paradigm: Interventional Microbiology”
2. ABSTRACT TITLE, 4477. “Using Our Microbial Credit Score as a Platform to Measure International Health Status; Global Pressures”
3. ABSTRACT TITLE, 4596. “Expanding the Educational Platform of Our Microbial Clock: Segregating Male, Female and the Aged”

Rutgers University, Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences - School of Health Professionals, Laboratory Sciences, Infectious Disease Course, May 28 - August 14, 2024

1. LECTURE 1 JULY 18. “The Marriage of the Microbiome and Biofilms: Who, How and Why”
2. LECTURE 2 JULY 25. “Systemic Diseases as NCDs Linked to Our Microbial Clocks: Male, Female and the Aged”
3. LECTURE 3 AUGUST 1 “Banking on Your Microbial Wealth and Loans: Pre, Pro and Post biotics and Psycho biotics”

American Society of Microbiology, Clinical Virology Symposium, Long Beach, October, 7-10, 2024

1. ABSTRACT TITLE, 88. “Promoting the Role of the Bacteriophage as an Early Regulator of the Human Microbiome and a Laboratory Tool”

The American Institute of Oral Biology, Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, October 18-20, 2024

1. PRESENTATION TITLE. “The Evolutionary Marriage of Microbiomes and Biofilms, focusing on Oral Civilizations: Who, How and Why”
2. PRESENTATION TITLE. “The Explosion of Non-Communicable Diseases, their comorbidities in Oral Health and our Microbial Clocks: Male, Female and the Aged (ME!)
3. PRESENTATION TITLE. “Banking on your Microbial Portfolio and Loans using Oral-Microbiome Targeted Therapy (O-MTT): Pre, Pro, Post and Psyco biotics”

SPRINGER/NATURE, PUBLISHER, DUE DATE, NOV 28, 2024

1. BOOK PUBLICATON, TITLE (PROPOSED). “The Silent Revolution in Clinical Microbiology: From Communicable Pathogens to Intimate Partners in Health and Disease”. OR. Sub title. “THEM AND US in 3 Sections: COEXISTANCE CREATED, COEXISTANCE LOST AND COEXISTANCE AMPLIFIED. Framed in more than a half a century (70 years) of laboratory Medicine through experiences of Dr Thomas in research, teaching and clinical service of medical and dental school and public health education (1964-2024). 300 Pages with 75 illustrations.

Past Conferences

ASM, Houston, TX.

June 2023.

• J. Thomas and L. Dunlap. "Banking on a Microbial Credit Score: Education of an Aging Electorate"
• J. Thomas and D. Winterton. “An Interdisciplinary Educational Approach to Maximize COVID-19 ICU Outcomes: Introducing an Oral-Lung-Trilogy”
• J. Thomas. “Linking Non-Communicable Diseases and Symptoms to the Human Microbial Clock: An Educational Platfrom”

OLLI at WVU, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.

3 Lectures, May 2023.

• J. Thomas. “Banking on Your Microbial Wealth: A Common Language for Health Education.”

The Lorenzo Berra Clinical Research Group / Anesthesia Center for Critical Care Research (ACCCR), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, Boston, MA.

• "Fridays with John". XV Lectures to Inspire and Motivate creativity in clinical Microbiology, focused on airway infections in Critcal Care patients influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rutgers University, School of Health Professionals, Dept of Clinical Laboratory and Imagining Sciences, Newark, NJ.

Infectious Disease Course. February 7, 2020.

• “Oral Biofilms, Biofilms and Migratory Oral Flora”.
• “We live in a Microbial World”

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Section of Anesthesia and Critical Care. Boston.

February 9, 2020.

• “Microbial Justice: Viruses and Coronavirus”.

Vermont Dental Conference, Burlington, Vermont.

September 18, 2020.

• ”Microbial Politics in Oral Health: Pathogens and Microbial Biofilms( Socio-microbiology or Microbes for Bernie”
• “The Oral Cavity: Portal of Diagnostics and Intervention in Aging and Age-Related Diseases”. (Are You Crazy??)
• “Banking on Your Microbial Wealth: Your Microbial Portfolio and Importance of Probiotics in Restorative Microbiology”.

Microbiology, 2020. Baltimore, MD.

September 12, 2020.

• “Microbiology Re-Imagined in Health”
• The Oral Cavity: Portal of Diagnosis and Intervention in Age Related Diseases.
• Banking on your Microbial Wealth: Your Microbial Portfolio and the Importance of Restorative Microbiology, “Partners for Life”.

Massachusetts General Hospital, Section of Anesthesia and Critical Care. Boston.

Weekly Noon Time Lectures, “Bugs at Lunch”. Virtual. September 1 – October 1, 2020

Mini-Micro Videos/30 minute Presentations, 15 minute Q/A. www.globalbugs.com.

Osher Life Long Learning Institute (OLLI)/ WVU School of Public Health. Morgantown, WV.

May 6, 13 and 20, 2020.

“Microbes and Politics”.

LABROOTS 2019, 5th Annual Microbiology and Immunology Conference. Webinar

Key- Note Presentation and Conference Greater. “Micro-Centric Aging: A Paradigm Shift”.

• Powerpoint
• Recorded Presentation

September 12, 2019

Aging and Social Change

• Microbial Centric Aging: A new Paradyme

9th Interdisciplinary Conference. Vienna.
Sept 16,17 2019

Vermont Dental Association

Burlington, Vermont, September, 2019.

OLLI. Osher Life Long Learning Institute

• Aging as a Disease: Are You Crazy?
• Climate Change, Microbes and Potable Water: The Next Global Crisis

April/May 2019
WVU, School of Public Health

American Society of Microbiology (ASM)

• Expanding Our Microbial Teaching Puppets, ‘The Culture Plate Gang’: Dexter The 2-Faced Clock
• Re-Imagining Microbial Wealth: A Microbial Investment Portfolio

Annual Meeting, San Francisco
June 20-24 2019

Rutgers University, Division of Laboratory and Imaging.

• Beneficial Microbes
• Migratory Oral Flora, Biofilms and Collateral Damage

January/February 2019

OLLI at WVU, School of Public Health,  May,  2018. John G Thomas. “We live in a Microbial World”. Human Clocks, Microbiologic and Biologic. 2. Beneficial Probiotics: Herbal Microbes,  and 3.  Aging, A Treatable Disease.

Lab Roots  2017 September, 2017, John G Thomas.  “Virtual Microbiology and Immunology”.  Beneficial Microbes:  Sharing of the Microbial Informational Library. (www.globalbugs.com)

Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, School of Health Professionals, Dept of Clinical Laboratory Science:  Advanced Topics in Clinical Microbiology”  February 14-23, 2017.  John G Thomas, PhD.  “War and Peace and the Hologenomic Theory of Co Evolution”

Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. (MGH). The Joseph B Marin Convention Center, Harvard Medical School, April 26-28.  Second Annual Round Table:  Challenges in Mechanical Ventilation and Airway Technologies.  John G Thomas, PhD.  “Oral Care of the Patient with Artificial Airway”

The International Conference on Aging and Society.

• Our Microbial Clock, Aging and Probiotic Solutions
  
• Changing Perspectives of who we are: Aging and Microbes (Oral Presentation , By Theme: Medicine)

November, 2 and 3, 2017
Berkeley CA, University of California

Society of Acute Wound Care (SAWC), Fall Meeting

• Madison Zaccagnini, BS and John G Thomas, PhD. Redefining The Changing Skin Mycobiota And The Utility Of New Non-Culture Techniques: Maldi-Tof
• Jason Smith, PhD, Phil Campbell, PhD and John G Thomas, PhD. Next Generation, Intellegent, Contour Fitting Wound Gauze.

October 20-22, 2017
Las Vegas , Nevada

3rd World Conference on Microbes and Beneficial Microbes. Theme: New Advancements of Microbes for Industrial Development.

Track 13, Microbes in Human Development:

• John G Thomas. PhD. Computer Generated Decision Support for Probiotic Guidelines Addressing Artificial Intelligence: An Educational Strategy
• John G Thomas, Phd. Chronic Wound Intervention With Contour-Fitting Probiotic Gauze: Re-Establishing The Beneficial Microbial Library Within.

October 16-18, 2017
Baltimore MD, USA

2017 Microbiology and Immunology Virtual Conference (Webinar, Lab Roots) Theme. Beneficial Microbes

• John G Thomas, PhD. BENEFICIAL MICROBES: Re-Establishing The Microbial Informational Library Within

September 13 and 14, 2017.

American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Annual International Meeting.

• Aging, our diminishing microbial clock and therapeutic intervention: Restorative microbiology (probiotics)
  
• Disruption, reconstruction of chronic wound biofilm using therapeutic bacteria: Reevaluating selection criteria for tissue probiotics (ASM 2017 5142)
  
• Unmasking the dynamic skin mycobiota and its importance in tissue engineering.(ASM 2017 4971)

June 1-5, 2017
New Orleans, LO

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Second Annual Round Table. Challenges in Mechanical Ventilation and Airway Technologies. John G Thomas PhD. “Oral Care of the Patient with Artificial Airway”

April 26 - 28, 2017
The Joseph B Marin Convention Center, Harvard Medical School

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Presenting: New research in the Microbial Clock and Diseases including Aging (War and Piece)

November 10, 2016
Cleveland, OH

ASM/ICAAC National Microbiology Meeting

Presenting: 4 Abstracts/posters

June 16-20, 2016
Boston, MA

Philadelphia National Lab Meeting ASCLS Annual Meeting

"Probiotics and the Germ- Therapy- Perodyme:  Infectious Disease Salvation"

August 1, 2016
Philladelphia, PA

American Institute of Oral Biology (AIOB)

Multiple Presentations

October 14-16, 2016
Palm Springs, CA

OLLI / West Virginia University

May 3, 2016
Morgantown, WV

Dutch Periodontal Meeting

"Unlearning the Learned : Periodontal Diseases , Biofilms  and Oral microbial Signature."

April 15, 2016
Amsterdam , Netherlands 

Human microbiome and probiotics:  the 3rd microbiome research and development and business collaboration forum. 

"Bringing to Life in Skin Microphone the Germ Theory to Germ Therapy"

April 12-14, 2016
Europe, London, UK

Aging and Society Conference, Fifth Interdisciplinary Conf. on Aging and Society

Nov 5-8, Catholic Univ.
Washington , DC

4th International Conf. on Clinical Microbiology and Microbial Genomics

Oct 5-7 2015,
Double Tree by Hilton
Philadelphia Airport

7th ASM Conference on Biofilms

Oct 24-29, 2015
Hyatt Regency, Chicago
151 East Wacker Drive