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