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