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