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