Sister Monica Asman (September 14, 1920 – April 5, 2016) was an American Catholic nun and research scientist at University of California, Berkeley.
Making a significant change, she then began scientific research supervised by George B. Craig at the University of Notre Dame.
[4] After completing her doctorate, her religious order moved her to Mount Alverno Center in Redwood City, California with the objective of returning to teaching.
[2] At the suggestion of the Berkeley research group, she changed from A. aegypti to the mosquito species Culex tarsalis and A. sierrensis because they were more important disease vectors in the California region.
She transferred the methods she had learnt to these species and applied them in projects aiming to reduce the fertility or disease transmission of these mosquitoes.