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