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