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