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