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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Bacteriologist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #56 of 702. Estimated risk: 1.2%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Bacteriologist” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

48%

“Bacteriologist” will probably not be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 48% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Microbiologists, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: 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.

Avg. Annual Salary $95,200
Avg. Hourly Wage $45.77
Available Jobs (US) 19,760
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Microbiologists #19-1022
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Microbiologists”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • 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.

  • Research use of bacteria and microorganisms to develop vitamins, antibiotics, amino acids, grain alcohol, sugars, and polymers.

  • Use a variety of specialized equipment, such as electron microscopes, gas and high-pressure liquid chromatographs, electrophoresis units, thermocyclers, fluorescence-activated cell sorters, and phosphorimagers.

  • Develop new products and procedures for sterilization, food and pharmaceutical supply preservation, or microbial contamination detection.

  • 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.

  • Prepare technical reports and recommendations, based upon research outcomes.

  • Supervise biological technologists and technicians and other scientists.

  • 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.

  • Isolate and maintain cultures of bacteria or other microorganisms in prescribed or developed media, controlling moisture, aeration, temperature, and nutrition.

  • Observe action of microorganisms upon living tissues of plants, higher animals, and other microorganisms, and on dead organic matter.

  • Study the structure and function of human, animal, and plant tissues, cells, pathogens, and toxins.

  • Provide laboratory services for health departments, community environmental health programs, and physicians needing information for diagnosis and treatment.

Technologies & Software

  • Consensus
  • Proscan
  • Nova (Amazon)
  • TreeView
  • FindTarget
  • Protein databases
  • Scite AI
  • Computing Solutions LabSoft LIMS Micro
  • Image capture and analysis software
  • Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
  • DeepSeek
  • Assistant Software for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Interpretation ASASI
  • Pathogen Modeling Program PMP
  • Microsoft Office software
  • WHONET
  • Genie Interactive
  • Microsoft Windows
  • SAP software
  • Qwen (Alibaba)
  • Statistical software
  • Llama (Meta)
  • Web browser software
  • Gene recognition software
  • BD Biosciences CloneCyt
  • Bruker Optics OPUS
  • Database management software
  • Mistral (Mistral AI)
  • Perplexity AI
  • Laboratory information management system LIMS
  • DM2 Bills of Lading
  • Gene Finder
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Semantic Scholar AI
  • ComBase
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • NetLims AutoLims
  • Orchard Software Orchard Harvest LIS
  • PredictProtein
  • Elicit
  • Email software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Computer Service & Support CLS-2000 Laboratory System
  • BD Biosciences CellQuest
  • Verity Software House ModFit LT
  • PHYLIP
  • Microsoft Access
  • Codon Usage Database
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Grok (xAI)
  • Word processing software
  • STARLIMS
  • Protein Explorer
  • ProtScale
  • Mistral AI (chat/models)
  • Kimi (Moonshot AI)
  • FramePlot
  • NotebookLM (Google)
  • Gemini (Google)
  • Microsoft Word
  • PIBWin
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • BtB Software Mycobacteriology Lab
  • Gas chromatographs GC
  • Drying ovens
  • Dichotomous particulate matter samplers
  • Pipette pumps
  • Safety glasses
  • Staining dishes
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Darkroom developing tanks
  • Culture bottles
  • Charge coupled device CCD color digital cameras
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers
  • Inoculating loops
  • Precision pan balances
  • Chemical safety showers
  • Gel transfer apparatus
  • Protective laboratory coats
  • Serology rotators
  • Erlenmeyer flasks
  • High-speed centrifuges
  • Direct heat dry wall carbon dioxide CO2 incubators
  • Colony counters
  • Gel support frames
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Helium-neon lasers
  • Protective gloves
  • Laser printers
  • Biological safety hoods
  • Steroclaves
  • Dropping pipettes
  • Recording thermometers
  • Bacteriological incubators
  • Fecal coliform water baths
  • Bacticinerators
  • Flow cytometers
  • Laboratory heat exchange condensing devices
  • Autoclaves
  • Peristaltic pumps
  • Raman spectrometers
  • Eyewash fountains
  • HEPA filtered biosafety cabinets
  • Mid-infrared spectrometers
  • Safety shoes
  • Microscope slides
  • Micromanipulators
  • Gel electrophoresis boxes
  • Laminar flow cabinets
  • Desktop centrifuges
  • Anaerobic growth chambers
  • Multistage agar impactors
  • Automatic pipetters
  • Orbital shaking incubators
  • Rechargeable electronic pipette fillers
  • Microcalorimeters
  • Electronic sterilizers
  • Laboratory refrigerators
  • Transmission electron microscopes TEM
  • Multiplate readers
  • Membrane filtration systems
  • Water purification systems
  • Vortex mixers
  • Coplin jars
  • Sectioned petri plates
  • Compound binocular light microscopes
  • Desktop computers
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Automatic cell sorters
  • Scanning electron microscopes SEM
  • Liquid chromatograph devices
  • Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ELISA plate readers
  • Tissue homogenizers
  • Freeze dryers
  • Erlenmeyer flask clamps
  • Argon lasers
  • Refrigerated recirculating water baths
  • Floor shakers
  • Laboratory membrane filtering devices
  • Orbital shaking water baths
  • Phase contrast microscopes
  • Heat blocks
  • Magnetic laboratory stirrers
  • Alcohol lamps
  • Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Deionized DI water systems
  • French presses
  • Automated microbial identification systems
  • Impedance meters
  • Microcentrifuges
  • Bioaerosol impactors
  • Prepared agar plates
  • Heating stirplates
  • Respirators
  • Water sample collection containers
  • Sonicators
  • Semidry blotting apparatus
  • Shaking incubators
  • Analytical balances
  • X ray diffractometers
  • Laboratory beakers
  • Visible/UV light scanning spectrophotometers
  • Oil-immersion microscope lenses
  • Personal computers
  • Gel documentation systems
  • Laboratory glassware washers
  • Culture tubes
  • Graduated glass laboratory cylinders
  • Hybridization ovens
  • Laboratory gas burners
  • Hardy Diagnostics HUGO
  • Dry bath incubators
  • Photomicroscopes
  • Automatic coverslipper
  • Infrared IR spectrometers
  • Fluorescent microscopes
  • Micro balances
  • Dissecting microscopes
  • Bioreactors
  • Visible spectrometers
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Multiwell trays
  • Ultra cold biological freezers
  • Liquid impingers
  • Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
  • Electroporators
  • Infrared gas analyzers
  • pH meters
  • Automated gram stainers
  • Liquid nitrogen storage equipment
  • Mass spectrometers
  • 8-channel electronic pipettes
  • Laboratory funnels
  • Notebook computers
  • Fluorescence activated cell sorters
  • Test tube racks
  • Bright field light microscopes
  • Transilluminators
  • Gas-powered generators
  • Thermocyclers
  • Micropipettes
  • Conductivity meters
  • Inverted microscopes
  • Petri dishes
  • Rotator mixers
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Bubble counters
  • Laboratory test tubes
  • Osmometers
  • High pressure liquid chromatographs HPLC

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