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