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