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