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