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