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