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