Women in Science: Neurobiologist Pinky Kain studies how fruit flies make feeding decisions and process taste

The Life of Science August 9, 2018, 20:07:23 IST

Dr Pinky Kain studies fruit flies to answer how ‘taste’ is processed by our brain

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Women in Science: Neurobiologist Pinky Kain studies how fruit flies make feeding decisions and process taste

Editor’s note: The Life of Science and Firstpost bring you this series profiling Indian women in Science. The challenges in Indian scientific life are many — more so for women taking up this path. This series honours those who beat the odds and serve as inspirations for the next generation of Indian science — a generation that is slowly and surely on its way to becoming gender equal.

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Interview by Shreya Malik | Art and concept by Pooja Prabhakaran

Pinky Kain | 38 | Neurobiologist | DBT — UNESCO Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad

Read more from the ‘Women in Science’ series  here .

THELIFEOFSCIENCE.COM  is a feminist science media project on a mission to make Indian women scientists more visible and investigate the gender gap in Indian academia

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