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