Rabindra Khadka | PhD Student

419 LSE 

Stillwater OK 74078

rabindra.khadka [at] okstate.edu

Rabi is a PhD student from Dhangadhi, Nepal. After completing his master’s degree, Rabi worked as a QC Microbiologist at Mylan Laboratories Limited (now part of Viatris Inc., a leading global sterile API company) for two years, where he faced US FDA and several other pharmaceutical industry regulatory audits several times. Having some experience and mastering the fundamental concepts & techniques, he hopes to later work as an R&D research scientist. He is studying the molecular properties of stressosomes—large cytoplasmic environmental-stress-sensing complexes—in Bacillus subtilis. Specifically, he is identifying the important stress sensor proteins that signal stress in B.subtilis in stressful environments. Rabi has a reputation for being an excellent TA and mentor in the MMG department. He has won the departmental TA of the Year award (2020 and 2022) and Outstanding Graduate Mentor award (2022 and runner-up 2023) several times. He was also awarded the MMG Departmental Ed & Mary Grula Fellowship Award (2022-2023) and recently awarded with Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (DGF) (2023-2024).