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Job Description
Study the chemical composition or physical principles of living cells and organisms, their electrical and mechanical energy, and related phenomena. May conduct research to further understanding of the complex chemical combinations and reactions involved in metabolism, reproduction, growth, and heredity. May determine the effects of foods, drugs, serums, hormones, and other substances on tissues and vital processes of living organisms.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-1021.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 94,340.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 45.00
- Currently, there are 29,200 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Biochemists and Biophysicists”.
Also Known As…
- Biochemists and Biophysicists
- Scientist
- Research Scientist
- Research Associate
- Research Assistant
- Professor of Physics/Researcher in Biophysics
- Laboratory Director
- Director of the Biophysics Facility
- Chief Scientific Officer
- Analytical Research Chemist
- Toxicologist
- Staff Toxicologist
- Research Affiliate
- Quality Control Associate (QC Associate)
- Physical Biochemist
- Pharmaceutical Scientist
- Nanotechnologist
- Genetic Engineer
- Clinical Researcher
- Clinical Laboratory Scientist
- Clinical Biochemist
- Biological Chemist
- Biochemist
Tasks for “Laboratory Director”
- Develop methods to process, store, or use foods, drugs, or chemical compounds.
- Develop new methods to study the mechanisms of biological processes.
- Study spatial configurations of submicroscopic molecules, such as proteins, using x-rays or electron microscopes.
- Research the chemical effects of substances, such as drugs, serums, hormones, or food, on tissues or vital processes.
- Share research findings by writing scientific articles or by making presentations at scientific conferences.
- Manage laboratory teams or monitor the quality of a team's work.
- Examine the molecular or chemical aspects of immune system functioning.
- Produce pharmaceutically or industrially useful proteins, using recombinant DNA technology.
- Study the mutations in organisms that lead to cancer or other diseases.
- Design or build laboratory equipment needed for special research projects.
- Research how characteristics of plants or animals are carried through successive generations.
- Investigate the nature, composition, or expression of genes or research how genetic engineering can impact these processes.
- Research transformations of substances in cells, using atomic isotopes.
- Prepare reports or recommendations, based upon research outcomes.
- Isolate, analyze, or synthesize vitamins, hormones, allergens, minerals, or enzymes and determine their effects on body functions.
- Prepare pharmaceutical compounds for commercial distribution.
- Develop or test new drugs or medications intended for commercial distribution.
- Teach or advise undergraduate or graduate students or supervise their research.
- Study physical principles of living cells or organisms and their electrical or mechanical energy, applying methods and knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, or biology.
- Develop or execute tests to detect diseases, genetic disorders, or other abnormalities.
- Design or perform experiments with equipment such as lasers, accelerators, or mass spectrometers.
- Determine the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules.
- Study the chemistry of living processes, such as cell development, breathing and digestion, or living energy changes, such as growth, aging, or death.
Related Technology & Tools
- Vacuum freezers
- Cryotransmission electron microscopes
- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Video positioning equipment
- Computerized axial tomography CAT scan equipment
- Microcalorimeters
- Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment
- Sample concentrators
- Laser tweezers
- Glassware adaptors
- Ultramicrotomes
- Microphysiometers
- Heating mantles
- Liquid nuclear magnetic resonance NMR equipment
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- Argon lasers
- Mainframe computers
- Atomic force microscopes
- Scanners
- Sapphire lasers
- Glassware condensers
- Auto gamma counters
- Gel boxes
- Pasteur pipettes
- Analytical ultracentrifuges
- Dual wavelength spectroscopes
- Tabletop centrifuges
- Stopped-flow spectrophotometers
- Cryostat tissue microtomes
- Balances
- Confocal microscopes
- Graduated cylinders
- Scanning laser microscopes
- Video enhanced differential interference contrast microscopes
- High-pressure liquid chromatographs
- Gas chromatographs GC
- Filtering funnels
- Shaking incubators
- Microinjectors
- Spectrophotometers
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- Cytospin centrifuges
- Top-loading electronic balances
- Personal computers
- Synchrotrons
- Raman difference spectrometers
- Circular dichroism spectroscopes
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- Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI microscopes
- Spectropolarimeters
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- Power amplifiers
- Plotters
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- Laser induced temperature jump nanosecond relaxation spectrometer systems
- Dichroic beamsplitters
- Rheometers
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- pH meters
- Signal generators
- Heat incubators
- Electron paramagnetic resonance EPR spectrometers
- Funnels
- Multi-angle elastic-light scattering systems
- Fluorescence spectroscopes
- Carbon dioxide CO2 incubators
- Water purification units
- X ray crystallography equipment
- Shaking waterbaths
- Nanoscopes
- Ultracentrifuges
- Microscope slides
- Darkroom equipment
- Liquid handling robots
- Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
- Ultraviolet UV transilluminators
- Protein sequencers
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- Ionometers
- Electron microscopes
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- Automatic x ray film developers
- Test tubes
- Specific gravity balances
- Rotating anode X ray generators
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- Sartorius balances
- Differential scanning calorimeters
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- Near-field light microscopes
- Microcentrifuges
- Mossbauer spectroscopes
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- Autoclaves
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- High-pressure high-temperature reactors
- Laboratory vacuum pumps
- Charge-coupled device CCD cameras
- Optical tweezers
- Scintillation counters
- Laser particle sizers
- Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers
- Isothermal titration calorimeters ITC
- Capillary electrophoresis equipment
- Transmission electron microscopes TEM
- Mettler balances
- Laminar flow hoods
- Analytical balances
- Cell sorters
- Biological safety hoods
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- Freeze dryers
- Microdosimeters
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- Gamma ray irradiators
- Inverted microscopes
- Flexi-dry lyophilizers
- Laser printers
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- Automated electrophoresis equipment
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- Multichannel detectors
- Incubators
- Positron emission tomography PET scanners
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- Phosphorimager video cameras
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Fermenters
- Pipettes
- Water baths
- Langmuir balances
- Magnetic tweezers
- Flame ionization detectors FID
- Growth chambers
- Chemical fume hoods
- Homogenizers
- Cryomicroscopes
- Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Nd:YAG lasers
- Lasers
- Krypton lasers
- Continuous flow centrifuges
- Beakers
- Phosphorimagers
- Erlenmeyer flasks
- Thermal imagers
- Megafuge centrifuges
- Automatic pipetters
- Notebook computers
- Cryogenic freezers
- X ray microscopes
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- Microplate readers
- Desktop computers
- Light scattering devices
- Amino acid analyzers
- Heat blocks
- Hemoglobin analyzers
- Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
- Vibratome tissue sectioning systems
- Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectroscopes
- Shrodinger Jaguar
- Linux
- Macroscopic diffusion software
- Voltage-gated ion channels software
- Accelrys Insight II
- Assisted model building with energy refinement AMBER
- Expression DNA and protein sequence software
- Microsoft Word
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- Python
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- Email software
- Structure prediction software
- Wavefunction Titan
- Internet browser software
- Molecular Devices Corporation MetaMorph
- Accelrys Cerius2
- SPSS
- Microsoft Excel
- Crystallography & NMR System (CNS)
- Yet another scientific artificial reality application YASARA software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- PREMIER Biosoft Array Designer
- Golden Helix HelixTree
- Molecular simulation software
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- Extensible markup language XML
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- ESRI What if?
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- Gaussian software
- Hodgkin-Huxley Model software
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- Golden Helix ChemTree
- Chang Bioscience ToolKit
- AutoQuant AutoDeblur
- Presentation software
- Video analysis software
- ItemTracker
- Fujitsu MOPAC
- Docking and ligand binding software
- Microsoft Office
- GEPASI
- Crystallographic software
- Minitab
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Laboratory information management system LIMS
- Microsoft Visio
- SAS
- Wavefunction Spartan
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- Sequence database software
- Multivariate statistical program MVSP software
- Genetics computer group GSG software
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- Semichem AMPAC
- ChemInnovation Software Chem 4-D
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
- SAP
- Fujitsu BioMedCache
- Intelligent Imaging Innovations SlideBook
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
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