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