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Colleen H. Hui, Ph.D.

Colleen H. Hui, Ph.D.

Associate

Colleen Hui is an associate at COJK who focuses her time on preparing and facilitating the prosecution of patent applications for inventions in biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, biological sciences, and life sciences and non-life sciences chemistry.

Colleen earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry, molecular and structural biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she worked as a graduate student researcher in the Merchant Lab of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. She has a Master of Science in biochemistry and molecular biology from Oregon Health & Science University, where she was a graduate student researcher. Prior to going to law school, Colleen was a graduate scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a research assistant at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief scientific in-house research agency, the Agricultural Research Service, at the Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California.

Colleen received her J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School, graduating with a certificate in intellectual property law. While in law school, Colleen served as treasurer of the Intellectual Property Student Organization and was a member of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association. Colleen is multilingual, speaking native English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

  • Lewis & Clark Law School, cum laude, 2025
  • Ph.D., Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
  • M.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, 2016
  • B.S., Chemical Biology and B.A., Latin, University of California, Berkeley, 2013

  • Christensen O’Connor Johnson KindnessPLLC
    Seattle, WA, 2023 - present

  • Graduate Student Researcher
    University of California, Los Angeles, 2016 – 2021
  • Graduate Scholar
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2018 – 2021
  • Graduate Student Researcher
    Oregon Health & Science University, 2014 – 2016
  • Research Assistant
    University of Oregon, 2013 – 2014
  • Research Assistant
    U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Pacific West Area,
    Western Regional Research Center, 2010 – 2013

  • American Bar Association
  • National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
  • Oregon State Bar
  • Washington State Bar Association

Publications

  • “Structural and functional regulation of Chlamydomonas lysosome-related organelles during environmental changes,” Plant Physiology, kiad189, 2023, Long, H., Fang, J., Ye, L., Zhang, B., Hui, C., Deng, X., Merchant, S.S., Huang, K.
  • “Growth Techniques,” The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook, 3rd edition, Vol. 1, 2023, pp. 287-314, Hui, C., Schmollinger, S., Glaesener, A.G.
  • “Simple steps to enable reproducibility: culture conditions affecting Chlamydomonas growth and elemental composition,” Plant Journal, Vol. 111, Issue 4, 2022, pp. 995-1014, Hui, C., Schmollinger, S., Strenkert, D., Holbrook, K., Montgomery, H.R., Chen, S., Nelson, H.M., Weber, P.K., Merchant, S.S.
  • “Single-cell visualization and quantification of trace metals in Chlamydomonas lysosome-related organelles,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 16, 2021, Schmollinger, S., Chen, S., Strenkert, D., Hui, C., Ralle, M., Merchant, S.S.
  • “Ligand-induced allostery in the interaction of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa heme binding protein with heme oxygenase,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 13, 2017, pp. 3421-3426, Deredge, D.J., Huang, W., Hui, C., Matsumura, H., Yue, Z., Moënne-Loccoz, P., Shen, J., Wintrode, P.L., Wilks, A.
  • “Quantitating PrP polymorphisms present in prions from heterozygous scrapie-infected sheep,” Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 89, Issue 1, 2017, pp. 854-861, Silva, C.J., Erickson-Beltran, M.L., Hui, C., Badiola, J.J., Nicholson, E.M., Requena, J.R., Bolea, R.
  • “Safe and effective means of detecting and quantitating shiga-like toxins in attomole amounts,” Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 86, Issue 10, 2014, pp. 4698-4706, Silva, C.J., Erickson-Beltran, M.L., Skinner, C.B., Dynin, I., Hui, C., Patfield, S.A., Carter, J.M., He, X.
  • “Oxidation of methionine in PrP is dependent upon the oxidant and the amino acid two positions removed,” Prion, Vol. 7, 2013, p. 81, Silva, C.J., Dynin, I., Erickson, M.L., Hui, C., Carter, J.M.
  • “Oxidation of methionine 216 in sheep and elk PrP is highly dependent upon the amino acid at position 218, but is not important for prion propagation,” Biochemistry, Vol. 52, Issue 12, 2013, pp. 2139-2147, Silva, C.J., Dynin, I., Erickson, M.L., Requena, J.R., Balachandran, A., Hui, C., Onisko, B.C., Carter, J.M.
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