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