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