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