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