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