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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Electron Microscopist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #56 of 702. Estimated risk: 1.2%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Electron Microscopist” 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%

“Electron Microscopist” 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

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

  • Examine physiological, morphological, and cultural characteristics, using microscope, to identify and classify microorganisms in human, water, and food specimens.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Supervise biological technologists and technicians and other scientists.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Investigate the relationship between organisms and disease, including the control of epidemics and the effects of antibiotics on microorganisms.

  • Study growth, structure, development, and general characteristics of bacteria and other microorganisms to understand their relationship to human, plant, and animal health.

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

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