Julia received her veterinary degree at Faculdade de Medicina Veterinaria e Zootecnia, University of Sao Paulo – UNESP, Botucatu, a Master of Science at Kansas State University, and a Ph.D. in immunology at Cornell University. Julia is board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. She assists large animal patients at the veterinary hospital, and runs a clinical immunology laboratory that provides immunologic testing for horses. Her research program studies developmental immunology and immunodeficiencies, particularly common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) in horses. Current questions focus on epigenetic mechanisms of disease that can be applied to regenerative clinical intervention; for instance, reversing aberrant epigenetics in hematopoietic stem cells for the development and transplantation of autologous B cells in patients with humoral immunodeficiencies.