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