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