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