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