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