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