Dr. Joshua Orvis is the Lead Bioinformatics Software Engineer at the Institute for Genome Sciences in University of Maryland, Baltimore and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University. With a strong background in microbiology and bioinformatics, he earned his undergraduate degree in Microbiology from the University of Oklahoma and a Master’s in Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University. Together with Dr. Ronna Hertzano they lead the team that developed the Gene Expression Analysis Resource (gEAR). His work focuses on creating scalable, automated systems for genomic data analysis, supporting research in pathogen genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, and multi-omic data exploration. He has collaborated on international projects and published widely in the fields of bioinformatics, microbiology, and molecular biology.