microbiologist

Noun

microbiologist (plural microbiologists)

1. A biologist whose speciality is microbiology.
   • On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
   • No, because we obsessively clean it (or use paper coverings at work), said microbiologist Charles Gerba, a professor of public health, environmental science and immunology at the University of Arizona.2019 October 7, Sandee LaMotte, “The germiest place in your home and the best way to combat those microbes”, in CNN