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