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