Microbiologists

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Electronic multichannel pipetters (8-channel electronic pipettes)
• Spirit burners (Alcohol lamps)
• Anaerobic chamber (Anaerobic growth chambers)
• Analytical balances
• Lasers (Argon lasers)
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Autoclaves)
• Microbiology slide stainers (Automated gram stainers)
• Microbiology analyzers (Automated microbial identification systems)
• Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters (Automatic cell sorters)
• Automated cover slipping equipment (Automatic coverslipper)
• Robotic or automated liquid handling systems (Automatic pipetters)
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Bacteriological incubators)
• Dry heat or hot air sterilizers (Bacticinerators)
• Air samplers or collectors (Bioaerosol impactors)
• Safety hoods (Biological safety hoods)
• Microbiology fermentation equipment (Bioreactors)
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Bright field light microscopes)
• Counters (Bubble counters)
• Digital cameras (Charge coupled device CCD color digital cameras)
• Decontamination shower (Chemical safety showers)
• Electronic counters (Colony counters)
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Compound binocular light microscopes)
• Conductivity meters
• Laboratory staining dishes or jars (Coplin jars)
• Tissue culture flasks (Culture bottles)
• Culture tubes
• Developing tanks (Darkroom developing tanks)
• Ultra pure water systems (Deionized DI water systems)
• Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers (Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers)
• Benchtop centrifuges (Desktop centrifuges)
• Desktop computers
• Air samplers or collectors (Dichotomous particulate matter samplers)
• Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators (Direct heat dry wall carbon dioxide CO2 incubators)
• Stereo or dissecting light microscopes (Dissecting microscopes)
• Dissolved oxygen meters
• Dropping pipettes
• Dry baths or heating blocks (Dry bath incubators)
• Drying cabinets or ovens (Drying ovens)
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Electronic sterilizers)
• Electronic toploading balances
• Electroporation cuvettes (Electroporators)
• Microplate readers (Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ELISA plate readers)
• Laboratory adapters or connectors or fittings (Erlenmeyer flask clamps)
• Laboratory flasks (Erlenmeyer flasks)
• Eyewashers or eye wash stations (Eyewash fountains)
• Circulating baths (Fecal coliform water baths)
• Fire extinguishers
• Rotating shakers (Floor shakers)
• Microbiology analyzers (Flow cytometers)
• Microbiology analyzers (Fluorescence activated cell sorters)
• Fluorescent microscopes
• Infrared spectrometers (Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers)
• Freeze dryers or lyopholizers (Freeze dryers)
• French pressure cells (French presses)
• Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatographs GC)
• Gas generators (Gas-powered generators)
• Gel documentation systems
• Gel boxes (Gel electrophoresis boxes)
• Gel boxes (Gel support frames)
• Blotting or transfer apparatus (Gel transfer apparatus)
• Laboratory graduated cylinders (Graduated glass laboratory cylinders)
• Electronic encyclopedias (Hardy Diagnostics HUGO)
• Dry baths or heating blocks (Heat blocks)
• Laboratory hotplates (Heating stirplates)
• Lasers (Helium-neon lasers)
• HEPA filtered enclosures (HEPA filtered biosafety cabinets)
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High pressure liquid chromatographs HPLC)
• Benchtop centrifuges (High-speed centrifuges)
• Hybridization ovens or incubators (Hybridization ovens)
• Impedance meters
• Infra red or ultra violet absorption analyzers (Infrared gas analyzers)
• Infrared spectrometers (Infrared IR spectrometers)
• Microbiology inoculation loops or needles (Inoculating loops)
• Inverted microscopes
• Laboratory beakers
• Laboratory funnels
• Gas burners (Laboratory gas burners)
• Laboratory washing machines (Laboratory glassware washers)
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Laboratory heat exchange condensing devices)
• Laboratory membrane filters (Laboratory membrane filtering devices)
• General purpose refrigerators or refrigerator freezers (Laboratory refrigerators)
• Multipurpose or general test tubes (Laboratory test tubes)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations (Laminar flow cabinets)
• Laser printers
• Liquid chromatographs (Liquid chromatograph devices)
• Air samplers or collectors (Liquid impingers)
• Cryogenic or liquid nitrogen freezers (Liquid nitrogen storage equipment)
• Magnetic stirrers (Magnetic laboratory stirrers)
• Mass spectrometers
• Laboratory membrane filters (Membrane filtration systems)
• Laboratory balances (Micro balances)
• Calorimeters (Microcalorimeters)
• Microcentrifuges
• Automated microscope stages (Micromanipulators)
• Dropping pipettes (Micropipettes)
• Microscope slides
• Infrared spectrometers (Mid-infrared spectrometers)
• Microplate readers (Multiplate readers)
• Air samplers or collectors (Multistage agar impactors)
• General purpose trays (Multiwell trays)
• Notebook computers
• Microscope objectives (Oil-immersion microscope lenses)
• Shaking incubators (Orbital shaking incubators)
• Orbital shaking water baths
• Osmometers
• Peristaltic pumps
• Personal computers
• Petri plates or dishes (Petri dishes)
• pH meters
• Darkfield microscopes (Phase contrast microscopes)
• Photo attachments for microscopes (Photomicroscopes)
• Pipette pumps
• Laboratory balances (Precision pan balances)
• Specialty plates for bacteria (Prepared agar plates)
• Protective gloves
• Protective coats (Protective laboratory coats)
• Spectrometers (Raman spectrometers)
• Pipetter inserts or accessories (Rechargeable electronic pipette fillers)
• Laboratory incubator thermometers (Recording thermometers)
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
• Refrigerated baths (Refrigerated recirculating water baths)
• Respirators
• Laboratory mixers (Rotator mixers)
• Safety glasses
• Safety shoes
• Scanning electron microscopes (Scanning electron microscopes SEM)
• Petri plates or dishes (Sectioned petri plates)
• Blotting or transfer apparatus (Semidry blotting apparatus)
• Laboratory mixers (Serology rotators)
• Shaking incubators
• Ultrasonic disintegrators (Sonicators)
• Laboratory staining dishes or jars (Staining dishes)
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Steroclaves)
• Test tube racks
• Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Thermocyclers)
• Homogenizers (Tissue homogenizers)
• Transilluminators
• Transmission electron microscopes (Transmission electron microscopes TEM)
• Ultra cold or ultralow upright cabinets or freezers (Ultra cold biological freezers)
• Ultracentrifuges
• Ultraviolet UV lamps
• Spectrometers (Visible spectrometers)
• Spectrophotometers (Visible/UV light scanning spectrophotometers)
• Vortex mixers
• Ultra pure water systems (Water purification systems)
• Specimen collectors (Water sample collection containers)
• X ray diffraction equipment (X ray diffractometers)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• Assistant Software for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Interpretation ASASI
• Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
• BD Biosciences CellQuest
• BD Biosciences CloneCyt
• Bruker Optics OPUS
• BtB Software Mycobacteriology Lab
• Codon Usage Database
• STARLIMS
• Statistical software
• Computing Solutions LabSoft LIMS Micro
• TreeView
• DNA sequence analysis software
• Verity Software House ModFit LT
• FindTarget
• FramePlot
• Gene Finder
• Gene recognition software
• Genie Interactive
• Image capture and analysis software
• Laboratory information management system LIMS software
• NetLims AutoLims
• Pathogen Modeling Program PMP
• PHYLIP
• PIBWin
• PredictProtein
• Proscan
• Protein databases
• Protein Explorer
• ProtScale

• Data base user interface and query software

• Database management software
• WHONET

• Electronic mail software

• Email software

• Information retrieval or search software

• ComBase

• Internet browser software

• Web browser software

• Medical software

• Computer Service & Support CLS-2000 Laboratory System
• Orchard Software Orchard Harvest LIS

• Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word
• Word processing software

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