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