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