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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Microbiology Specialist” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #56 of 702. Estimated risk: 1.2%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Microbiology Specialist” 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%

“Microbiology Specialist” 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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Supervise biological technologists and technicians and other scientists.

  • 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.

  • Conduct chemical analyses of substances such as acids, alcohols, and enzymes.

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

Technologies & Software

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

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