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