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