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