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