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