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