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