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