WhatsAppDr. Gideon Pisanty
Curator of bees and parasitic wasps
Research associate at the Steinhardt Museum
Dr. Gideon Pisanty is curator of bees and parasitoid wasps at the Steinhardt Museum. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2014, studying crop pollination. Prior to his current position, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Canadian National Collection in Ottawa, Canada, where he studied bee phylogenetics. His current research focuses on the species- and higher-level systematics of the bee genus Andrena – a huge genus of solitary ground-nesting bees, with over 1700 species worldwide and more than 220 species in Israel alone.
Research Projects (as of 2025) | Major collaborators | Courses taught
- Systematics of the bee genus Andrena in Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean Basin
- World-wide phylogeny and higher-level organization of the bee genus Andrena
- Assembling an updated checklist of the bee species of Israel
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- Thomas J. Wood (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the Netherlands)
- Sophie Cardinal (Canadian Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Canada)
- Silas Bossert (Washington State University, USA)
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- Ecology and evolution of Hymenoptera (2023 – ongoing)
- The wild bees of Israel (2021, with Dr. Achik Dorchin)
