Arnav is a first-year PhD student who joined the Ader Lab in Fall 2025. He earned his BA in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Life Sciences from Soka University of America. During his time there, he investigated the effects of biochar on the remediation of heavy metal–contaminated soil and worked to identify novel Rsp5 E3 ubiquitin ligase substrates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In the summer of 2024, Arnav worked in the Myers Lab, studying the effects of an oral galectin 3 inhibitor on vein wall fibrosis in a mouse model.
In the Ader Lab, Arnav investigates the biology of nucleocytoplasmic compartmentalization when Schizosaccharomyces pombe undergoes sexual growth during nitrogen starvation. He is particularly interested in determining whether the nuclear envelope hole is sealed between the two meiotic nuclear divisions in S. pombe and whether nucleocytoplasmic compartmentalization is lost during this process, leading to passive diffusion of molecules between the cytoplasm and nucleus.