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