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