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