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