Meet Attabey Rodríguez Benítez

From Puerto Rico! Attabey Rodríguez Benítez completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Currently, she is a doctoral student in the program of Chemical Biology at the University of Michigan. After her first year, she joined the labs of Prof. Alison R.H Narayan and Prof. Janet L. Smith. She focuses on using enzymes as chemical tools for the synthesis of natural products and elucidating their mechanisms of action through structural biology.
Attabey has a Spanish science blog, E​n Arroz y Habichuelas, where she writes about science for the general public! Besides lab, she also enjoys making/editing Wikipedia pages for women in STEM.