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