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