Juliana developed her research work at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Instituto Carlos Chagas, Brazil. During her undergraduate work (2013-2014) and Master Degree (2015-2016) she worked with Brazilian environmental trypanosomes parasites species, investigating the use of their extracellular vesicles as a potential vaccine against the Chagas disease.

During her PhD (2017-2021), supervised by Dr. Pryscilla Wowk, Juliana studied the Zika virus interaction with human neutrophils. Part of her PhD (2017 and 2019) was done at Karolinska Institutet in Dr. Antonio Rothfuchs’s Lab, due to an awarded scholarship from Brazilian Ministry of Education. In Sweden, she studied dendritic cell migration to lymph nodes in response to vaccinia virus in an animal model.

Dr. Rothfuchs collaboration with Dr. Brian Ferguson gave Juliana the opportunity to do a short internship (2019) at The University of Cambridge to produce a recombinant vaccinia virus. Now, Juliana is back in Cambridge and has joined Dr. Boyle’s group as a postdoctoral Research Associate (April 2022) with the aim of shedding further knowledge on the biological function of TAPBPR in displaying peptides for immune recognition.