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