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