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