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