Eric Murnane Poeschla is an American infectious disease physician, virologist, and innate immunologist.
[1] Poeschla was the project physician for the 1990 Vanderbilt University Petexbatun Maya Archaeology Expedition in Dos Pilas, Guatemala.
Poeschla's laboratory is interested in how viruses interact with, use, or evade cellular proteins as they replicate, as well as innate immunity, and viral emergence.
Early work determined how FIV, the feline HIV-like virus, carries out its life cycle.
[13][14][15] In 2020, a restriction to primate lentiviruses (HIV and related simian viruses) was reported in cells of large bats.