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