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