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