Neuroscience / Computation / PhilosophyPersonal notes & selected work

Hello, I'm

Kevin
Sangster.

How do cells become circuits?

I am a developmental neurobiologist with a background in computer science. I study how neural circuits form, and I am moving toward computational biology and AI for biology.

PhD studies in neuroscienceMcGill University
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02 / Research

From cells
to connections.

My work asks how the nervous system builds the circuits that carry sensory information.

At McGill, my doctoral research examines the development of neural circuits that relay precise sensory information from the body. This includes work on teneurin-3 and latrophilin-2, and their roles in how sensory connections are arranged in the spinal cord.

Before this, I worked with cerebral organoids to study brain development and glioblastoma. I also used RNA sequencing data to build a machine-learning model for immunotherapy response.

Neural developmentComputational biologyAI for biology
2021 — present

McGill University

PhD studies · Integrated Program in Neuroscience

2020 — 2021

University Health Network

Research Technician · Cerebral organoids

2016 — 2020

University of Toronto

Honours BSc · Neuroscience Specialist

03 / Publications

A few pieces
of the picture.

2026Science Advances · 12, eadz3075

Evidence for chronological diversification of spinal neuron subtypes by a shared sequence of transcription factors

Segarra, L. C.*, Sangster, K. T.*, Sagner, J., Kania, A., and Sagner, A.

2022Cell Reports · 39(8), 110846

Regionally defined proteomic profiles of human cerebral tissue and organoids reveal conserved molecular modules of neurodevelopment

Melliou, S.*, Sangster, K. T.*, Kao, J., Zarrei, M., Howe, J., Papaioannou, M., Tsang, Q., Djuric, U., and Diamandis, P.

2022Molecular Psychiatry

The promise of organoids for unraveling the proteomic landscape of the developing human brain

Melliou, S., Sangster, K. T., Djuric, U., and Diamandis, P.

2020Acta Neuropathologica Communications · 8, 209

Cerebral organoids: Emerging ex vivo humanoid models of glioblastoma

Papaioannou, M.-D., Sangster, K., Sajid, R. S., Djuric, U., and Diamandis, P.

* Equal contribution. Publication details are from my 2026 CV.

04 / Beyond the lab

Other ways
of thinking.

My interests also include philosophy and poetry.

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Philosophy

I am particularly interested in analytic philosophy and Kantian ethics.

02

Poetry

An interest in language alongside my work in biology and computation.

05 / Contact

Let's make
a connection.

For conversations about research and shared interests.

Based in Montréal, Canada.