Housing
UC Berkeley Off-Campus Rental Services provides rental listings and housing-search support for students, faculty, and staff. Compare rent and travel time to IGI for each address.
Prospective Members
Living in the Bay Area
Housing, transit, and places to spend time outside the lab in Berkeley and the surrounding Bay Area.
Transit
BART connects Berkeley with Oakland and San Francisco, with airport connections to SFO and OAK. AC Transit serves local routes. Check the trip planner for your departure time and any transfers.
Culture
Berkeley and the broader Bay Area offer independent bookstores, music venues, food from many traditions, science talks, museums, and a large biotech community.
Outdoors
Tilden Regional Park has hiking trails in the Berkeley Hills. The Berkeley Marina offers waterfront paths, and the wider East Bay has parks and trails for day trips.
Housing and commuting
The neighborhoods around the lab
Compare routes from each address to IGI. Travel times depend on distance to transit, transfers, and time of day.
Berkeley
Downtown Berkeley has restaurants, shops, and theaters near campus and the BART station.
Walk, bike or local transit
Oakland
South of Berkeley, with BART connections to Downtown Berkeley. Include travel to and from the station when comparing locations.
BART and local transit
San Francisco
Across the bay from Berkeley, with BART connections to Downtown Berkeley. Check the full trip from your neighborhood to IGI.
BART across the bay
Albany / El Cerrito
North of Berkeley. Compare bus routes, bike access, and distance to a BART station for each address.
Bus, bike or nearby BART
Housing and transit resources
Berkeley, California
Life around Berkeley.
Berkeley has restaurants, shops, theaters, and public parks, with BART connections to Oakland and San Francisco.
The everyday setting
Research at UC Berkeley and IGI
The lab uses shared instruments, wet-lab space, and computational facilities at IGI.
Across the bay
San Francisco across the bay
BART connects Downtown Berkeley with San Francisco. Plan the rest of your route from the station to your destination.
Regional connection
BART from downtown Berkeley
Check the BART trip planner for routes to Oakland and San Francisco.
Berkeley Hills
Trails in the Berkeley Hills
Tilden Regional Park has hiking trails, picnic areas, and a botanic garden in the Berkeley Hills.
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