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Job Description
Investigate the growth, structure, development, and other characteristics of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, algae, or fungi. Includes medical microbiologists who study the relationship between organisms and disease or the effects of antibiotics on microorganisms.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-1022.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 76,850.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 36.00
- Currently, there are 21,670 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Microbiologists”.
Also Known As…
- Microbiologists
- Study Director
- Quality Control Microbiologist (QC Microbiologist)
- Professor of Microbiology
- Microbiology Laboratory Manager
- Microbiologist
- Microbiological Laboratory Technician
- Microbiological Analyst
- Clinical Microbiologist
- Clinical Laboratory Scientist
- Virology Director
- Virologist
- Research Microbiologist
- Public Health Microbiology Laboratory Director
- Public Health Microbiologist
- Physical Scientist
- Mycobacteria and Brucella Laboratory Head
- Microscopist
- Microbiology Supervisor
- Microbiology Laboratory Director
- Microbiology Analyst
- Medical Technologist
- Medical Microbiologist
- Medical Laboratory Technician
- Electron Microscopist
- Cytologist
- Chemist
- Bacteriologist
Tasks for “Bacteriologist”
- Examine physiological, morphological, and cultural characteristics, using microscope, to identify and classify microorganisms in human, water, and food specimens.
- Monitor and perform tests on water, food, and the environment to detect harmful microorganisms or to obtain information about sources of pollution, contamination, or infection.
- Prepare technical reports and recommendations based upon research outcomes.
- Develop new products and procedures for sterilization, food and pharmaceutical supply preservation, or microbial contamination detection.
- Study growth, structure, development, and general characteristics of bacteria and other microorganisms to understand their relationship to human, plant, and animal health.
- Investigate the relationship between organisms and disease, including the control of epidemics and the effects of antibiotics on microorganisms.
- Conduct chemical analyses of substances such as acids, alcohols, and enzymes.
- Provide laboratory services for health departments, for community environmental health programs, and for physicians needing information for diagnosis and treatment.
- Use a variety of specialized equipment such as electron microscopes, gas chromatographs and high pressure liquid chromatographs, electrophoresis units, thermocyclers, fluorescence activated cell sorters and phosphorimagers.
- Study the structure and function of human, animal, and plant tissues, cells, pathogens and toxins.
- Supervise biological technologists and technicians and other scientists.
- Isolate and maintain cultures of bacteria or other microorganisms in prescribed or developed media, controlling moisture, aeration, temperature, and nutrition.
- Observe action of microorganisms upon living tissues of plants, higher animals, and other microorganisms, and on dead organic matter.
- Research use of bacteria and microorganisms to develop vitamins, antibiotics, amino acids, grain alcohol, sugars, and polymers.
Related Technology & Tools
- Osmometers
- Hardy Diagnostics HUGO
- Darkroom developing tanks
- Protective gloves
- Fire extinguishers
- Personal computers
- Gel transfer apparatus
- Micropipettes
- Ultracentrifuges
- Multiplate readers
- Multiwell trays
- Bright field light microscopes
- Dissolved oxygen meters
- Laminar flow cabinets
- Safety glasses
- Infrared IR spectrometers
- Shaking incubators
- Rechargeable electronic pipette fillers
- Bioreactors
- Fluorescent microscopes
- Deionized DI water systems
- Gel documentation systems
- Membrane filtration systems
- Bioaerosol impactors
- Liquid nitrogen storage equipment
- Floor shakers
- Gas chromatographs GC
- Precision pan balances
- Vortex mixers
- Automatic cell sorters
- Laboratory vacuum pumps
- Microscope slides
- Transilluminators
- Phase contrast microscopes
- Orbital shaking incubators
- Mass spectrometers
- HEPA filtered biosafety cabinets
- Peristaltic pumps
- Electronic toploading balances
- Laboratory heat exchange condensing devices
- Bacteriological incubators
- Dropping pipettes
- Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ELISA plate readers
- Microcentrifuges
- Magnetic laboratory stirrers
- Laboratory glassware washers
- Dichotomous particulate matter samplers
- Conductivity meters
- Electronic sterilizers
- Notebook computers
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Laboratory refrigerators
- Protective laboratory coats
- Freeze dryers
- Respirators
- Analytical balances
- Automated microbial identification systems
- Staining dishes
- Rotator mixers
- 8-channel electronic pipettes
- Fecal coliform water baths
- Thermocyclers
- Micro balances
- Laboratory gas burners
- Steroclaves
- Infrared gas analyzers
- Micromanipulators
- Ultraviolet UV lamps
- Dry bath incubators
- Laboratory beakers
- Laboratory membrane filtering devices
- Erlenmeyer flask clamps
- Serology rotators
- Visible/UV light scanning spectrophotometers
- Liquid impingers
- Gas-powered generators
- Liquid chromatograph devices
- Erlenmeyer flasks
- Automated gram stainers
- Safety shoes
- Culture tubes
- Heat blocks
- Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
- Desktop centrifuges
- Orbital shaking water baths
- Autoclaves
- Compound binocular light microscopes
- Laboratory funnels
- Raman spectrometers
- Heating stirplates
- Dissecting microscopes
- Electroporators
- Sonicators
- Bacticinerators
- Culture bottles
- Gel electrophoresis boxes
- Laser printers
- Eyewash fountains
- Visible spectrometers
- Chemical safety showers
- Argon lasers
- French presses
- Ultra cold biological freezers
- Gel support frames
- X ray diffractometers
- High pressure liquid chromatographs HPLC
- Charge coupled device CCD color digital cameras
- Inoculating loops
- Impedance meters
- Photomicroscopes
- Desktop computers
- Pipette pumps
- Graduated glass laboratory cylinders
- Petri dishes
- Inverted microscopes
- Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers
- Recording thermometers
- Automatic coverslipper
- Flow cytometers
- High-speed centrifuges
- pH meters
- Laboratory test tubes
- Semidry blotting apparatus
- Biological safety hoods
- Test tube racks
- Anaerobic growth chambers
- Alcohol lamps
- Sectioned petri plates
- Oil-immersion microscope lenses
- Tissue homogenizers
- Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
- Transmission electron microscopes TEM
- Coplin jars
- Direct heat dry wall carbon dioxide CO2 incubators
- Multistage agar impactors
- Microcalorimeters
- Hybridization ovens
- Water purification systems
- Mid-infrared spectrometers
- Prepared agar plates
- Fluorescence activated cell sorters
- Automatic pipetters
- Drying ovens
- Refrigerated recirculating water baths
- Colony counters
- Bubble counters
- Water sample collection containers
- Helium-neon lasers
- Codon Usage Database
- Pathogen Modeling Program PMP
- PredictProtein
- Computer Service & Support CLS-2000 Laboratory System
- FramePlot
- Web browser software
- Verity Software House ModFit LT
- BD Biosciences CellQuest
- Orchard Software Orchard Harvest LIS
- BD Biosciences CloneCyt
- Statistical software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- PHYLIP
- Gene recognition software
- FindTarget
- TreeView
- Image capture and analysis software
- Assistant Software for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Interpretation ASASI
- PIBWin
- Bruker Optics OPUS
- Laboratory information management system LIMS
- Protein Explorer
- WHONET
- STARLIMS
- Email software
- Proscan
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
- NetLims AutoLims
- DM2 Bills of Lading
- SAP
- Gene Finder
- Protein databases
- Database management software
- BtB Software Mycobacteriology Lab
- Microsoft Excel
- Genie Interactive
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
- ComBase
- Computing Solutions LabSoft LIMS Micro
- ProtScale