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