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