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