The TriStar multimode reader from Berthold Technologies has been installed at the Dallmann laboratory on the Antarctic Peninsula (Position: 62°14'S, 58°40'W).

Three different reading technologies as luminescence, fluorescence and absorbance and the capability of high sensitive BRET and FRET assays makes the TriStar a versatile microplate reader in today's research.

The Dallmann laboratory was opened in 1994 together with the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremen (Germany) and the Instituto Antártico Argentino (IAA). The laboratory is named after Eduard Dallmann, a polar explorer from Bremen.

Equipped with four laboratories, the Dallmann Laboratory offers living and working space for scientists and additional storage space, aquarium and some igloo huts. The Dallmann Laboratory is only open during the summer months, i.e. from October to March. 

The laboratory offers biologists and earth scientists the facilities they need to work in ice-free areas and shallow waters close to the coast. This is possible only in the few Antarctic areas where the coastline is not covered by thick shelf ice. Research divers investigate the composition and stability of algal and faunal communities. Research findings on feeding relations and the physiology of species enable scientists to advance our knowledge about the development of polar communities under the impact of global environmental changes.