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