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