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