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