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