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