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In this lecture, I will take you along a research adventure, that started with the chocolate company Ferrero asking for help in establishing hazelnut farming in Canada, and lead to two challenging and exciting questions: How can we protect hazelnut flowers from the cold winters? And how can we prevent the Eastern Filbert Blight from ruining the trees? I will discuss the super interesting history of hazelnuts in Turkey, and how developing a market in other parts of the world would support the second largest chocolate company in the world. And we'll walk through the strategies and some exciting discoveries when we tried to answer these questions. You might get hungry during my lecture, but you'll definitely also gain a new appreciation of the importance of biology in so many things...including chocolates!