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