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