# STEMcast Episode 26 | Extreme Microbes with Dr. Nagissa Mahmoudi: How Does Life Survive Space, the Deep Ocean, and More?

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Podcast: [STEMcast - McGill iGEM](https://stenobird.com/podcast/stemcast-mcgill-igem-6511088)
Published: 2025-04-06T21:29:44+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/stemcast/1975632
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Duration seconds: 3128

## Resource

In this episode of STEMcast, we join Dr. Nagissa Mahmoudi — a biogeochemist at McGill University — in exploring how microbes live and thrive in various extremes. We hear how Dr. Mahmoudi fell in love with biology, and how she spends her days now as an educator and researcher. She provides wisdom on how events such as oil spills can affect their ecosystems’ microbiomes, and we hear an expert’s predictions on the possibilities of life outside of Earth. All this and more on this episode of STEMcast.

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