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