The Unit's main site is located to the north of Nantes, within the INRAE Pays de la Loire centre (la Géraudière site):

INRAE - CR Pays de la Loire
3, Impasse Yvette Cauchois
La Géraudière site,
CS 71627,
F-44 316 Nantes Cedex 3

GPS coordinates: 47° 15' 47.826" N 1° 33' 57.553" W

From Nantes-Atlantique Airport:

Take the Aéroport-Nantes shuttle bus to the ‘Hotel Dieu’ stop for the connection with tramway line 2, direction ‘Orvault Grand Val’ and get off at ‘Santos-Dumont’ to reach boulevard Albert Einstein (approximately 1 hour, including a 10-minute walk).

From Nantes SNCF station by tram or bus:

From Nantes North SNCF station, take tram line 1 towards François Mitterrand, get off at the ‘Commerce’ stop, then take tram line 2 towards Orvault Grand Val, get off at the ‘Santos-Dumont’ or ‘Chêne des Anglais’ stop and walk to boulevard Albert Einstein (approximately 40 minutes, including a 10-minute walk).

From the SNCF station on the south side, take the C5 bus and get off at the ‘Commerce’ stop, then take the N°2 tramway towards Orvault Grand Val, get off at the ‘Santos Dumont’ or ‘Chêne des Anglais’ stop and walk to boulevard Albert Einstein (approximately 40 minutes, including a 10-minute walk).

From Nantes SNCF station by tram-train:

If you want to be picked up by car, to avoid traffic problems in the city centre, it may be more convenient to take the tram-train (TER T1) from Nantes station in the direction of Nort-sur-Erdre and get off at the ‘Babinière’ stop (less than 15 minutes). Timetables are available on the Pays de la Loire website destineo.fr.

Access by ring road/ A11 motorway from Paris :

Exit onto N844 towards Périphérique-Est/Nantes-Nord/Nantes-Centre, then take exit 39 towards Porte de la Chapelle, then at the roundabout take boulevard Albert Einstein.

The Rennes-based team is based at the INRAE Le Rheu site:

Domaine de la Motte
BP 35327
F-35 650 Le Rheu cedex

Coordonnées GPS : 48° 6' 30.787" N  1°47' 39.264" W