Explore protein representation learning through geometric structure pretraining in this 53-minute talk by Zuobai Zhang from Valence Labs. Dive into the world of protein function prediction and discover GearNet, a simple yet effective protein structure encoder. Learn about edge message passing, GearNet-Edge, and various experimental setups. Understand geometric pretraining techniques, including contrastive learning with SimCLR and self-prediction baselines. Examine the results of pretraining on different datasets and gain insights into future research directions. Conclude with a Q&A session to deepen your understanding of this innovative approach to protein representation learning.